Thanks to Chris Faraone and Talking Joints Memo for the excellent reporting, as always. We are feeling optimistic about change coming in the next year, but we can't let up on the gas. We need everyone to be talking about lab shopping, the lack of standardization, and the regulation changes that we need now! Otherwise, there will be no ethical businesses left.
I hope you have been waiting all week to read this article, because that is how long it has taken me to write it. I appreciate everyone who spoke to me - I know it isn't easy to criticize the agency that regulates you. “You can look at the data [obtained via Freedom Of Information Act requests] for dozens of producers to see the same behavior. Even with this data in hand, the commission continues to divert their attention to other ‘perceived’ issues, such that any efforts to solve these problems will be completely mis-directed. The house is on fire, and they want to hose down the barn.”