40% THC Flower?! How Lab Shopping and THC Inflation Cheat Cannabis Consumers
SAN FRANCISCO—Gold Seal brand co-founder and grower Neil Dellacava’s jaw dropped when he opened the email and saw the note from his lab: the new batch of his award-winning Gold Seal Cherry Cheesecake flower buds was just 17% THC by dry weight?!
HIGHLIGHTS
- It’s almost a mandatory business practice for growers and distributors to shop around for the lab that gives them the highest THC scores.
- In California, lab shopping appears endemic. At least a couple labs seem to be inflating THC scores.
- THC inflation—lying—might be the original sin of cannabis labs.
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