Steve Robinson

for the safety of Americans and for the safety of everybody who wants to consume products.

You know, I know plenty of people who smoke weed.

I know some people who run, you know, businesses that make a couple million dollars a year and they'll smoke two or three grams of THC oil a day, which is an insane amount of THC oil to smoke.

But they're running successful businesses and they're paying their taxes and they've got a bunch of employees and they're law-abiding citizens.

They deserve to have a cannabis product that doesn't have 16 Chinese pesticides in it.

The people who are moving into houses in Maine, they deserve to know that the house that they're moving into

wasn't formerly a Chinese marijuana grow where the walls are all poisoned with these pesticides.

Just like you would, you know, if you crack a beer, you want to know what's in it.

You want to know that there's not crazy Chinese fungicides in it.

You deserve the same thing if you're smoking a joint legally in some state.

And right now, because of the patchwork of laws and the large, powerful forces that benefit from this patchwork of laws, we don't have that.

We have no certainty.

Um, so the, if I can say anything, it would be just, you know, if you, if you want to smoke some pot, grow it yourself, you know, whatever, just because it comes in a, in a shiny plastic package at a gas station or a convenience store or a head shop.

And the guy at the head shop is really nice and really cool.

Does it mean a thing?

Doesn't mean a thing.

I, I, I will not be bringing the cannabis I purchased here, uh, on the airplane with me back to, uh, Maine because that'd be a violation of federal law, but, uh,

If I did bring it back there and had it tested, I'm willing to bet that it would probably test positive for at least paclobutazole, microbutanol, and a couple of the more common pesticides and growth hormones and other chemicals that the Chinese growers and others use on their products.

And American consumers deserve not to be poisoning themselves in that way.

Thank you very much.