Growing practices and the use of potentially harmful chemical additives among a sample of small-scale cannabis growers in three countries

With the growth of legalized medical and recreational cannabis markets in the USA, Canada, Israel, and elsewhere there has been increasing recognition of the adverse impacts of certain cannabis growing practices. In North America in particular, the use of potentially harmful and sometimes carcinogenic chemical pesticides, fertilizers, ‘nutrients’ and bud-stimulators has posed challenges for the development and implementation of regulations and procedures of quality assurance systems and product testing in legal seed-to-sale cannabis cultivation and production systems (Subritzky et al., 2017).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research