The Cole Memo

In what might be our shortest episode ever, Dr. Bob Miller sheds light on challenges of cannabis testing regulations in Illinois, specifically with regard to pesticide testing. Dr. Miller emphasizes the impracticality of current requirements, stressing that laboratories face significant obstacles in compliance. Dr. Miller claims that this issue has resulted in widespread non-compliance, which ultimately calls into question Illinois’ assertion of having the most stringent testing requirements in the nation.

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• My appearance on Future Cannabis Project can be viewed here

The auto-generated transcript is available below.

in this episode of the Cole memo I wanted to share a clip that kind of pokes a hole in the idea that Illinois has some of the most stringent testing uh requirements in the nation let’s take a look at the clip before I play the clip I wanted to let you know that in episode 59 the person featured in this clip joined me to provide further context so if you’d like to hear more with regard to what you’re about to here tune in to episode 59 you can find that by seeing the link that is in the description for this episode of the podcast it’ll be in the show notes or you can go to the co memo.com and you can use the search functionality in the top right- hand corner to look up episode number 59 with Dr Bob Miller now enjoy this clip featuring testimony provided by Dr Bob Miller for it’s overall success I want to talk about one aspect I I apologize hopefully won’t be too in depth in chemistry but a situation right now we’re living in Illinois in Illinois today we have a pesticide test that we cannot do the test requires us to test for 350 different pesticides if we were to even get the materials of known Purity it would cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars even to be able to do that but what it makes it worse is it says the specification should be the tightest specification of any product that would have that pesticide so for example we’re having arguments right now having a pesticide and we’re using a specification of what’s in sheep because the way the regulation is written you have to test for 350 and the criteria you have to use is the tightest of all specs for all types of food stuffs so the absurdity of that situation is just Paramount what’s it driving non-compliance no since none of us can actually do the test every laboratory is doing something different many of them are not even doing the test so with the intention of creating the most stringent criteria actually caused the opposite it actually is causing non-compliance so really important about regulations the second one I’d argue relates to the infused so what do you think about this I certainly have never heard about this before and I would be interested to hear what you think about this before I go I just wanted to quickly plug that I recently made an appearance on the future cannabis project I will link my appearance in the in the episode description for this podcast so check it out just uh refer to the episode description there will be a link and that will show you the complete show notes where you can either view the video version of this podcast or see that uh link that I just referenced check out the show it was a great conversation uh I look forward to the next time I go on that show and maybe we’ll have them on our show please folks let me know what you think about the subject matter covered in this very short episode of the coold memo we’ll see you in the next one take care