Here's a good reason to grow your own.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/...V0sQb6TcGWsXC1p_NYCAdJuYZA4U5NWKu0sTMD3TnyufY
https://www.masslive.com/news/2019/...V0sQb6TcGWsXC1p_NYCAdJuYZA4U5NWKu0sTMD3TnyufY
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Mass Dispensaries Hammered Over Pesticide Use
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I love how those POS growers are complaining that our produce isn’t held to such a high standard of testing. Yeah assholes, let me go wash off my brownies in the sink real quick.
So happy to be done with that whole scene. Disgusting. Feel bad for folks that rely on dispensaries.
So happy to be done with that whole scene. Disgusting. Feel bad for folks that rely on dispensaries.
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Plymouth marijuana company M3 Ventures fined $50,000 after employee lied about pesticide use
Posted Aug 8, 8:18 PM
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By Shira Schoenberg | [email protected]
BOSTON — State regulators fined Plymouth marijuana company M3 Ventures $50,000 after an employee lied about the company’s use of pesticides.
“We were given false information about the use of pesticides, and they have rectified that in multiple ways,” Cannabis Control Commission Chairman Steven Hoffman said Thursday.
In December, the Department of Public Health temporarily shut down M3 Ventures’ dispensaries in Plymouth and Mashpee due to the use of prohibited pesticides. They were allowed to reopen in April.
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2 Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensaries ordered to shut down over use of pesticides
The Department of Public Health ordered Triple M to close its dispensaries temporarily due to concerns about pesticide use.
The company also goes by the name Triple M.
A settlement signed Thursday by M3 and the Cannabis Control Commission, which has taken over supervision of the medical marijuana industry from DPH, reveals that the company’s director of cultivation also misrepresented the company’s pesticide use.
According to the settlement, state inspectors in November discovered prohibited pesticides in a storage area at the cultivation facility. They interviewed the director of cultivation, who is not named in the complaint, about the facility’s history of pest issues and its use of pesticides on marijuana plants.
During a Dec. 4 reinspection of the facility, company officials admitted that the cultivation director “had misrepresented the use of pesticides” discovered on-site.
In addition to paying a $50,000 fine, the company will be on probation through the end of the year. It is required to track and record its use of additives on a daily basis.
The company has eliminated the cultivation director position, instead splitting it into two jobs — cultivation operations manager and master grower. It has engaged a national firm to help it develop a plan for pest management using allowed substances. It has inventoried all the chemicals it has on site and received approval to use them from state officials and third-party monitors.
Cannabis Control Commission Enforcement Counsel Paul Payer said during a public meeting Thursday that he is satisfied the company took steps to comply with the regulations and “reflect the integrity we expect from the licensee.” Payer noted that, in addition to changing policies, M3 Ventures has reorganized the department. It has not violated state regulations since it reopened.
The commission approved the settlement unanimously.
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Held to a different standard? Some growers question Massachusetts ban of most pesticides on marijuana crops
While some say the ban is required for public safety, others say marijuana is being unfairly subjected to a standard that does not apply to other crops.
On its website at the time it was shut down, M3 said it was using natural pesticides that are approved for growing produce in all 50 states and for growing cannabis in six states.
Growers generally have voiced concerns that the restrictions on pesticides placed on growing marijuana in Massachusetts are stricter than those placed on food crops and stricter than those imposed in other states that have legalized marijuana.
Hoffman said the commission has an “ongoing dialogue” with the state Department of Agricultural Resources, which regulates pesticide use.
Posted Aug 8, 8:18 PM
13
By Shira Schoenberg | [email protected]
BOSTON — State regulators fined Plymouth marijuana company M3 Ventures $50,000 after an employee lied about the company’s use of pesticides.
“We were given false information about the use of pesticides, and they have rectified that in multiple ways,” Cannabis Control Commission Chairman Steven Hoffman said Thursday.
In December, the Department of Public Health temporarily shut down M3 Ventures’ dispensaries in Plymouth and Mashpee due to the use of prohibited pesticides. They were allowed to reopen in April.
false
2 Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensaries ordered to shut down over use of pesticides
The Department of Public Health ordered Triple M to close its dispensaries temporarily due to concerns about pesticide use.
The company also goes by the name Triple M.
A settlement signed Thursday by M3 and the Cannabis Control Commission, which has taken over supervision of the medical marijuana industry from DPH, reveals that the company’s director of cultivation also misrepresented the company’s pesticide use.
According to the settlement, state inspectors in November discovered prohibited pesticides in a storage area at the cultivation facility. They interviewed the director of cultivation, who is not named in the complaint, about the facility’s history of pest issues and its use of pesticides on marijuana plants.
During a Dec. 4 reinspection of the facility, company officials admitted that the cultivation director “had misrepresented the use of pesticides” discovered on-site.
In addition to paying a $50,000 fine, the company will be on probation through the end of the year. It is required to track and record its use of additives on a daily basis.
The company has eliminated the cultivation director position, instead splitting it into two jobs — cultivation operations manager and master grower. It has engaged a national firm to help it develop a plan for pest management using allowed substances. It has inventoried all the chemicals it has on site and received approval to use them from state officials and third-party monitors.
Cannabis Control Commission Enforcement Counsel Paul Payer said during a public meeting Thursday that he is satisfied the company took steps to comply with the regulations and “reflect the integrity we expect from the licensee.” Payer noted that, in addition to changing policies, M3 Ventures has reorganized the department. It has not violated state regulations since it reopened.
The commission approved the settlement unanimously.
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Held to a different standard? Some growers question Massachusetts ban of most pesticides on marijuana crops
While some say the ban is required for public safety, others say marijuana is being unfairly subjected to a standard that does not apply to other crops.
On its website at the time it was shut down, M3 said it was using natural pesticides that are approved for growing produce in all 50 states and for growing cannabis in six states.
Growers generally have voiced concerns that the restrictions on pesticides placed on growing marijuana in Massachusetts are stricter than those placed on food crops and stricter than those imposed in other states that have legalized marijuana.
Hoffman said the commission has an “ongoing dialogue” with the state Department of Agricultural Resources, which regulates pesticide use.
Here's another if the first link isn't working.
https://www.ganjapreneur.com/massachusetts-regulators-fine-cannabis-company-over-pesticide-use/
https://www.ganjapreneur.com/massachusetts-regulators-fine-cannabis-company-over-pesticide-use/
