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Dangerous pesticides found in Colorado marijuana.

Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:39 pm
Posted by LSU1NSEC
Member since Sep 2007
17243 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:39 pm
Colorado's agricultural agencies are in panic mode after several independent studies found dangerous levels of pesticides in marijuana products.

A CNN report published Wednesday found that at least one over-the-counter product tested positive for illegally high levels of the neurotoxin imidacloprid. CNN commissioned tests by an independent lab, and the report ultimately led to a recall of 2,362 pot products. A similar Denver Post study in September yielded similar findings -- some of the cannabis products tested had as much as six times the federally allowed limit on pesticides in consumable products.

If the pesticides had been found on, say, avocados, the products would have been taken off the shelves immediately. But Colorado's oversight of pesticides on marijuana has been limited, other than a handful of recalls and plant quarantines.

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Posted by Btrtigerfan
Disgruntled employee
Member since Dec 2007
21446 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:40 pm to
Whoa. That's heavy man.
Posted by LSU1NSEC
Member since Sep 2007
17243 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:41 pm to
smells like freedom
Posted by Chuker
St George, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2015
7544 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:42 pm to
Wonder how much illegal pot has high levels of pesticides? I'd gander that most of it does.
Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
11320 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:42 pm to
Like, why would you want to kill bugs, man? It's all nature or whatever.
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76295 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:43 pm to
They should ban marijuana them
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124168 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:43 pm to
Is it as dangerous as cigarettes?
Posted by glassman
Next to the beer taps at Finn's
Member since Oct 2008
116111 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:45 pm to
quote:

Is it as dangerous as cigarettes?


Or alcohol or legal opiods?
Posted by LSU1NSEC
Member since Sep 2007
17243 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:46 pm to
Just a PSA. Toke away stoners.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
30394 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 6:48 pm to
This is why people should be able to grow their own pot, man. When you get these big farming entities involved, with their motive of making a profit, it just kills my high.
Posted by TigerLicks
Dallas, TX
Member since Oct 2003
11546 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 7:00 pm to
No licensed pesticide applicators farming all over the planet. Smoke away. Darwinism.

One of the nicer properties of imadicloprid is that the application rates are at far lower concentration rates to remove insects than most older insecticides, making it potentially less harmful to larger mammals. But the last way I'd want exposure to this(short of drinking it concentrated) is inhalation through smoking.
Posted by LSU1NSEC
Member since Sep 2007
17243 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 7:03 pm to
quote:

No licensed pesticide applicators farming all over the planet. Smoke away. Darwinism.


personal responsibility, smaller gov't, laisez fair, invisible hand of the market, buyer beware... yada yada yada
Posted by Poodlebrain
Way Right of Rex
Member since Jan 2004
19860 posts
Posted on 11/25/15 at 7:31 pm to
Some of us old timers will remember the paraquat scare of the 1970's. The government tried spraying this herbicide on marijuana fields in Mexico and California. Many thought that smoking weed with paraquat on it would be a health hazard. Turned out to be much ado about nothing.
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