Sydney Lupkin
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And they've got to figure it out.
And that isn't to say that DCC is like doing everything perfectly because –
There was some reporting by the LA Times that there were still pesticides in the legal weed products, particularly in the vapes.
So the department is, you know, evolving and trying to respond to that.
And it's definitely upped its testing and enforcement in the last few years.
So in 2024, there were over 60 weed recalls.
And then this year, they've already had 80 weed recalls.
And they've taken 10 actions against laboratories so far this year.
Yeah, so he said that there were over 600 contaminants that were regulated across the 30 states that had legalized cannabis at that time.
But in each state, there were only between 60 and 120 contaminants that were being regulated.
So in other words, different states were looking for different contaminants.
I also asked Lung, you know, whether states testing for just more contaminants maybe had safer weed.
It's not really well studied.
So a state that might be testing for 300 things might not be testing for the one thing that is guaranteed to give you cancer someday.