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The issue of potency inflation is currently common in the press. Everyone thinks that cannabis labs cannot be trusted due to overt cheating. Although a few bad actors certainly can, and do, cheat the system, most inter-laboratory variability can be caused by perfectly legal means leaving regulators very little actions to correct.

The issue of potency inflation is currently common in the press. Everyone thinks that cannabis labs cannot be trusted due to overt cheating. Although a few bad actors certainly can, and do, cheat the system, most inter-laboratory variability can be caused by perfectly legal means leaving regulators very little actions to correct.

Colorado, with one of the oldest legal markets for cannabis and cannabis testing, annually updates their regulatory language to meet new market needs and to improve existing regulatory language. The impacts of these regularly updates, with an emphasis on the impacts for analytical testing facilities, will be discussed by Stephen Goldman, CSO of Kaycha Labs. The implications for other states will also be discussed, with pesticide testing used to illustrate key points.

Colorado, with one of the oldest legal markets for cannabis and cannabis testing, annually updates their regulatory language to meet new market needs and to improve existing regulatory language. The impacts of these regularly updates, with an emphasis on the impacts for analytical testing facilities, will be discussed by Stephen Goldman, CSO of Kaycha Labs. The implications for other states will also be discussed, with pesticide testing used to illustrate key points.

This report shows the analysis of the entire pesticide suite on the California List demonstrated by LC-MS/MS using two injections; one utilizing ESI and the other APCI