States with regulated marijuana markets should require agriculture agencies and universities to develop data-driven recommendations for pesticide use in cannabis cultivation and should educate marijuana growers about how to manage pests that threaten their crops.
Those are among the recommendations made by two Oregon scientists who wrote a paper examining pesticide use in the marijuana industry. The paper was authored by Rodger Voelker, a chemist at a marijuana lab in Eugene, and Mowgli Holmes, a microbiologist who runs a Portland company trying to untangle the genetic makeup of marijuana strains.
