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Commercial cannabis is highly regulated - but in Washington, for instance, something like 271 pesticides are allowed to be used on cannabis. That's compared to
by code_duck 9y ago
Commercial cannabis is highly regulated - but in Washington, for instance, something like 271 pesticides are allowed to be used on cannabis. That's compared to the 1000 approved on general food crops.
If you compare your average black market marijuana to standard cigarette, too, with all of the adulterants added and legal pesticide and herbicide residue - I'm not sure that regulation will help.
- lostlogin 9y agoThat’s not a very good way to compare though is it? If 500 of those pesticides target pests that don’t damage cannabis, why should those pesticides be allowed to appear in lab testing of cannabis. It makes sense to limit the number of pesticides allowed to ones that actually help. I dont know if this is what has been done, but you would hope this was a factor.
- code_duck 9y agoI’m not sure if I follow what you’re saying. My point was that regulation doesn’t necessarily decrease pesticide use or make it safer, unless they’re actually testing for residues for all of those at zero. The situation with conventional commercial agriculture – pesticides that cause clear harm to children being permitted, or phased out over years when they are discontinued – is the reason I think that. As much as i hate to say it, organic isn’t necessarily safer, either. The pesticide implicated in a cannabis hyperemesis, neem and derivatives, is organic.