New Jersey legal weed products contained exponentially higher levels of yeast, mold and bacteria and were often far less potent than advertised, a team of secret shoppers discovered after submitting pre-rolled joints for testing.
A study released by the Safe Leaf Society this week calls into question the testing capabilities of cannabis testing laboratories after the organization, a new grassroots group of cannabis advocates, purchased 25 pre-rolled joints at licensed dispensaries and submitted them for testing.
Each joint had already undergone testing and passed before being sold on dispensary shelves. But when the Safe Leaf Society submitted them for testing, seven joints showed microbial levels far beyond the legal limit of 100,000 colony-forming units per gram, the cap established by the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission.