Teresa Carr

And she became addicted to opioids that were prescribed by her doctor for her pain.

And she found that cannabis was both the way to help her overcome that addiction and it also helps assuage her pain.

But a couple years ago, she and her partner Charles Arbina started having unexplained health issues.

Summer had fainting episodes and stroke-like symptoms.

Charles, who had a history of migraines, suddenly they became unrelenting.

He had to be hospitalized.

He lost feeling in the side of his face.

The doctors didn't have any real explanation for what was going on.

When Charles' doctor suggested their weed could be contaminated, the couple dismissed it.

All legal products have to go through a testing process and they get a certificate of analysis or COA that says it's, you know, free of all these contaminants.

And, you know, here's the chemical analysis of it.

This is the THC profile.

For instance, when Summer and Charles got some of the marijuana products they were using tested... To their horror, they discovered that they were contaminated with both mold and some pesticides, and that those pesticides were associated with some neurotoxicity.

There's no way to know for sure.

You can't prove cause and effect.

One thing they did tell me is that when they stopped using that weed and switched to another brand, the problems that they had dissipated.

So that's all you can say.

They feel strongly that the two are correlated.

He found that most of them were tainted with mold, and two of them actually had salmonella.

He also found that about three-fourths of them