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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The messy business of weed regulation

    The recreational marijuana business is up and running in California. But since legalization and the start of new testing regulations, 20 percent of cannabis products didn’t meet purity standards or contain the potency advertised.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Sep 13, 2018 • 1 min read

    The recreational marijuana business is up and running in California. But since legalization and the start of new testing regulations, 20 percent of cannabis products didn’t meet purity standards or contain the potency advertised. The industry says it is getting better and adjusting to the new regulations, but that there are not enough testing labs.

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    3 of 4
    Doors open at LA’s newest homeless shelter
    1. 0:00What’s driving the record number of migrant kids in U.S. detention?
    2. 9:09Inside the new homeless housing at El Pueblo
    3. 16:28The messy business of weed regulationYou’re reading this
    4. 24:21Hal Ashby’s influential, subversive, and short run at making iconic 1970s movies
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