Oklahoma lawmakers spent Tuesday morning at the state Capitol digging into whether the medical marijuana industry’s testing labs can actually be trusted, hearing from patients, business owners and regulators who described a system riddled with inconsistency. Rep. Jacob Rosecrants, a Democrat from Norman, hosted the interim study after saying he and patients had become sick after using marijuana products.
Oklahoma currently relies on roughly a dozen independent laboratories to confirm that marijuana products meet safety and quality standards before they reach patients, according to Oklahoma Voice. State law requires those labs to test samples from every final harvest or production batch across seven categories, including pesticides, potency, terpenes and heavy metals, as reported by Oklahoma Watch. Every legal medical marijuana product sold in the state must pass through one of these licensed labs before it ever reaches a dispensary shelf, the outlet notes.
