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LA Times/WeedWeek: California weed’s dirty secret
By
Alex Halperin
Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024
Last week the LA Times published The Dirty Secret of California's Legal Weed, an investigation by Paige St. John and myself, through WeedWeek. It looks into the presence of dangerous, sometimes banned, pesticides in California's legal weed supply, and how state regulators...
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