Should Michigan marijuana businesses disclose ‘kill step’ to customers?

LANSING, MI — Customers should be told if producers take steps to remediate marijuana to improve its chances of passing state testing. That was the majority opinion shared during the quarterly Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Association (MRA) meeting in Lansing Thursday, March 10.

“A lot of what we go through as a person who suffers from severe post-traumatic stress is fear of the unknown,” said Anton Harb Jr., a disabled Iraqi war veteran who spoke in favor of more product disclosure at the meeting. “And cannabis, for me, is my medicine. It’s my lifeline and I want to know what process my products have been submitted to.”

The MRA asked the public to share opinions related to marijuana remediation and how, if and when customers should be notified it occurred.

Remediation is a general term applied to any process that kill pests, yeast, mold or removes chemicals and metals in order to pass mandated safety tests. This often occurs using expensive X-ray and ozone machines that kill microbes — the most common reason marijuana fails testing — but there are accounts of dipping marijuana or spraying it with certain chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide.

Some marijuana business use remediation techniques in their production process to drastically improve the chance their harvest passes testing. Others use it as a corrective measure in response to failed testing. [Read More @ MLive.com]