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Inflated

Cannabis industry members say lab shopping and THC potency inflation hurt the market, consumers and patients. What can be done about it?

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Patrick Williams
October 31, 2022

Illustrations by Cat Sims

As labs and cannabis companies claim increasingly higher THC percentages, those claims become more questionable, according to Ben Rosman, co-founder and CEO of PSI Labs, and Josh Wurzer, co-founder and president of SC Labs.

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