{"id":31481,"date":"2017-09-03T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2017-09-03T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:31:27","slug":"making-it-legal-did-not-improve-the-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31481","title":{"rendered":"Making It Legal Did Not Improve The Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/blog\/craig-bannister\/study-80-san-fran-bay-area-marijuana-poses-health-hazards-such-cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNS News<\/a> posted a story about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Francisco Bay Area\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.75,-122.283333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=37.75,-122.283333333 (San%20Francisco%20Bay%20Area)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cannabis (drug)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cannabis_%28drug%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">marijuana<\/a>. Evidently, legal marijuana in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"California\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.0,-120.0&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=37.0,-120.0 (California)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">California<\/a> is not necessarily pure as the wind-driven snow.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe greatest threat standing in the way of California\u2019s march toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernluxury.com\/san-francisco\/story\/how-i-learned-stop-worrying-and-love-legalized-weed\">legalized marijuana<\/a> isn\u2019t Attorney\u00a0General <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jeff Sessions\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Sessions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Jeff Sessions<\/a> or Big Pharma. It\u2019s the cannabis industry itself,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/modernluxury.com\/san-francisco\/story\/whats-the-matter-california-cannabis\">San Francisco Magazine reports:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cMuch of the roughly $1 billion in cannabis sold in California\u2019s 1,000-plus dispensaries every year is dirty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A study of buds, edibles and concentrates entered in last August\u2019s HempCon competition found that 80 percent was tainted. The study, conducted by Anresco, found mold, pesticides and harmful solvents in the pot products.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Some of the health threats posed by the tainted marijuana are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cancer,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reproductive toxicity,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Developmental toxicity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Developmental_toxicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Developmental toxicity<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lung infections,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cardiovascular issues, and<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Neurotoxicity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neurotoxicity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Neurotoxicity<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How is that any better than tobacco?<\/p>\n<div id=\"imkadwrap2\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, CNS News posted a story about San Francisco Bay Area marijuana. Evidently, legal marijuana in California is not necessarily pure as the wind-driven snow. 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