Knowing some close people that are involved in the large-scale industry in California, its sad to see how people don't even know what pesticides are sprayed on their dispensary weed. There are staple agriculture laws from DPR these farms just completely disregard.
For example: chemical dilution instructions (for things like Oxiphos and ZeroTol) aresimply not followed in a lot of places and workers just eyeball it most of the time without any PPE care for themselves. The former chemical is also dangerous if inhaled and a wide variety of places spray the pesticide on the flowers! Wonder if there's any studies on the effects to humans with late stage spraying
Lastly, plant diseases? If they don't affect crop growth and don'tput consumers immediatelyinto ahospital, they'll sell it.
This isn't meant to scare people away from dispensaryweed, instead it should motivate us to voice our concerns and make sure the industry is safely regulated as well asheld toagricultural standards other farms are.