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As marijuana legalization looms on California's horizon, employers are conflicted about their policies of drug testing. If voters agree to legalize pot on Nov. 8, business leaders and employment experts say employers could find themselves in trouble for asking a job applicant or underling to...

The Ketchikan City Council on Thursday approved a marijuana cultivation permit application contingent upon satisfactory review by the City Fire Marshall. The motion was approved 6-1 with City Council Member Dick Coose voting against approval. The application was submitted by Jason Kolanko...

Columbia, Maryland A group of local doctors plans to open a medical marijuana testing facility in Columbia to ensure product quality as the state prepares to launch its burgeoning therapeutic cannabis industry. Testing is required by state law for cannabis growers, which presented an...

Columbia, Maryland A group of local doctors plans to open a medical marijuana testing facility in Columbia to ensure product quality as the state prepares to launch its burgeoning therapeutic cannabis industry. Testing is required by state law for cannabis growers, which presented an...

A Juneau company has applied to be the first marijuana testing business in Alaska's capital. The Juneau Empire reports Southeast Alaska Laboratories LLC has applied for a city conditional use permit and a state marijuana establishment license. Glacier Analytics, another potential testing lab...

When drafting their regulations for the growth and sale of marijuana, the Alaska Marijuana Control Board and the Juneau Assembly split the budding industry into four sectors: cultivation, product manufacturing, testing and retail. To date, the city's Planning Commission has heard and approved...

Berkeley, California - Steep Hill, the global industry leader in cannabis testing and analytics, today announced it has licensed its cannabis testing technologies to a highly-respected team of scientists who have plans to open Steep Hill Alaska as a full service cannabis quality assurance...

The Marijuana Control Board approved the first-ever commercial marijuana businesses in Alaska on Thursday. After a rocky start to the meeting, the board began approving cultivation and testing facilities in midafternoon. "Everything takes longer than expected," newly appointed Chair Peter...

Alaska regulators were applauded Thursday as they approved the first licenses for legal marijuana growing and testing facilities – another milestone for the fledgling industry. Priority was being given to growing and testing operations to ensure that retail stores will have legal product to...

Test detects presence of THC but does not provide a level of intoxication. The man tasked with coming up with Canada's marijuana law has a proposal for dealing with one of the biggest issues facing legalization: prevention of driving under the influence of pot. While police can conduct field...

Industry experts say there are a lot of chemicals that could contaminate Hawaii's medical marijuana. Dispensaries are set to open in Hawaii in July, and state lawmakers are pushing a broad bill to address many of the obstacles the industry is facing. One is how to regulate marijuana testing...

Starting this summer, medical marijuana products will be required to undergo testing by certified facilities, much the way that recreational products are currently tested. Last week the Colorado House passed House Bill 16-1064, which will enable facilities to get a medical marijuana testing...

A prominent Morris County physical therapist and entrepreneur is banking his future on the growth of the medical-cannabis testing industry. But rest assured, David Cunic has not gone from fixing joints to smoking them for a living. "Most people say 'Oh, if you need a tester, I'll test a joint...

The Florence City Council approved lifting the ban on marijuana and hemp testing facilities in Florence during its meeting Tuesday. The moratorium would remain on all other marijuana establishments except for testing facilities, the ordinance said. Marijuana testing facilities would be...

A driver who used marijuana for medical purposes four days before driving has been caught by the NSW government's push on drug driving, in laws that have been blasted by a magistrate as "a mystery". The case is one of several that have come to light questioning the accuracy of a current NSW...

Roadside drug and alcohol testing helps save lives, but there are legitimate questions around marijuana. Recently, Lismore magistrate David Heilpern described the current testing for cannabis as a 'mystery and uncertain-by-design.' He made these observations when he found Joseph Ross Carrall...

A group of New Mexico medical cannabis producers are pushing back against the state's strict new testing requirements they say will force them to discard up to a quarter of their medication. Growers claim that the new rules, which require private labs to test their dried flowers and any...

Activists say they are undeterred that Lismore MP Thomas George was not present when they gathered outside his office this week to protest against the roadside drug-testing regime. About 70 people gathered to voice their concerns against the tests, which detect cannabis and other drugs, but...

I'm curious about the impact that the recently discovered/admitted Flint tap water contamination could have on past, present and future cannabis production and the consumption of cannabis using Flint tap water. Has anyone done any testing at all in this area? Imagine bubble hash, other...

Mark asks, "If your employer doesn't already drug test, can they start immediately and just start testing anyone at random, or is there a process they must go through, like a notice to employees the policy is going to change and random testing will begin in xx amount of days?" Luckily...