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UW Researcher Wants Quality Control Tests for Washington's Medical Marijuana

By Keegan Hamilton, Fri., Jan. 14 2011 @ 11:15AM

Health and Welfare

​Michelle Sexton wants to test Seattle's marijuana supply to make sure it's safe for human consumption. No, that doesn't mean she's planning on hotboxing her research lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine. On the contrary, Sexton is teaming up with the Cannabis Defense Coalition, a Seattle-based advocacy group, in hopes of performing the first clinical analysis of medical marijuana in Washington state.

Sexton says the testing is important to ensure that patients don't unknowingly ingest residual mold or chemicals from plant fertilizer and pesticides with their medication. If someone is suffering from a debilitating condition such as AIDS, which weakens the body's immune system, such impurities could actually end up making them sicker.

What's more, Sexton adds, lab testing would provide an exact breakdown of the active ingredients in each strain of prescription pot. These include not only THC, pot's primary psychoactive compound, but different types of cannabinoids that can affect the drug's potency and may have medicinal properties of their own. Access to such information, she explains, would allow both doctors and patients to maintain a consistent dosage, just as they do with other types of prescription drugs.

"It's not really a new idea," Sexton says. "Botanical medicines have long been explored for their major active compounds, and with the levels of THC increasing overtime in street cannabis, I think it's of concern to many of us who are doctors as to what sort of dosage patients may be getting."

Those words were music to the ears of members of the Cannabis Defense Coaltion (CDC). Late last spring, Sexton gave a talk about pot testing to several CDC members. The group came up with the idea for the Community Cannabinoid Testing Project. Now the CDC is attempting to raise $3,500 in start-up costs via donations.

According to Sexton, the pot analysis can be performed using a variety of methods with mass spectrometry yielding the most precise results. The process requires gram-size samples and would cost in the range of $100 and $200 per test.

The trouble, Sexton says, is that marijuana testing exists in a "legal gray area." She works in a UW lab that investigates the effect of cannabinoids on the brain's immune system, with an eye toward treating diseases like Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis. The lab has a license from the DEA that allows them to work with controlled substances, but Sexton's proposed testing project would not be affiliated with UW, and the legality of accepting nuggets of prescription pot from the state's licensed growers and providers is suspect.

"Everybody is just sort of out there testing the waters," Sexton says. "Nobody that I know of has done it in Washington state, and I wouldn't go forward without consulting a lawyer."

New medical-marijuana legislation introduced earlier this week by state senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles defines medical cannabis by its THC content, but offers no specific legal protection for those who want to analyze the drug.

"The Department of Agriculture is given authority to test for the THC levels," Kohl-Welles spokeswoman Becca Kenna-Schenk writes in an e-mail. "They could use that authority to use outside laboratories. Ultimately, it will be up to the Department to determine who gets to test. The Department may acquire its own equipment and conduct the tests itself, or it may accept certified tests from private labs."

Medical-marijuana testing has already caught on in other states with permissive pot laws. In the Bay Area, a group called the Steep Hill Cannabis Analysis Laboratory has created a "SafeCannabis" program that verifies the purity of retail pot and partners with the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department to inspect the region's legal outdoor grow operations.

In Montana, Dr. Michael Geci says he quit his job as an ER physician to start Montana Botanical Analysis. The company charges licensed dispensaries $100 to analyze each gram-size sample, and he says his business has increased "exponentially" over the past year.

"If you're going to call it a medicine, you have to treat it like medicine," Geci says. "If somebody makes a brownie and they come through our lab, they know it has X amount of THC, CBD (cannabidiol), and CBN (cannabinol). We're able to dose more safely. It gives an element of consumer protection and safety to an industry that desperately needs legitimacy."

Geci says his operation is not specifically protected under Montana law, but when he opened the business he took a proactive approach and contacted a variety of local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies and told them about his work. Still, he admits, "statutorily there's no protection--we're flying on the seat of our pants, hoping that our integrity and our intention of bringing a legitimacy to this industry would give us a semblance of protection."

For Sexton, the hope that police and prosecutors will turn a blind eye to marijuana testing isn't enough protection to get her project with the CDC up and running.

"It's just sort of a travesty we can't analyze it like we do other plants and find out what's going on and find out if there are correlations with different strains and medicinal effects," she says. "It's relatively easy work for somebody who's used to doing it, it's just access to the plant material is forbidden."

Tags:

Cannabis Defense Coalition, HB 1100, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, medical marijuana, Michael Geci, Michelle Sexton, SB 5073

[∆-9-THC]

vai saber oque estao pondo na erva la tb ne, sei que varios dispensorios compram de cliente a cannabis, e se tem gente fumando um "peters"(zoando) sem saber achando que é organico rsrsrsrsr legal a ideia dela de fazer os testes ne..

[Canadense]

nesses hr foi mais pra ver se tem mofo ou se tem pesticidas...

acho dificil provar se é organico ou ferts quimicos... a num ser na balança...

[∆-9-THC]

po como que nao tem canadense .. no olho tu so prova o rendimento mesmo, com teste quimico tu acha ate se cuspiram na erva brother..Maconha medicinal tem que ser organica senao nao é medicinal..

[Canadense]

po como que vai provar a fonte do NPK??? principalmente depois de usado pela planta????

as celulas vão estar maiores... por que o organico tb é NPK...

[∆-9-THC]

ta e tu acha que pra chegar em um NPK os quimicos fzem oque canadense, misturam Nitrogenio,fosforo e potassio e ta pronto? pra virar nitrogenio,fosforo ou potassio sao varias misturas que sao acusadas em testes de laboratorio, que nao tem os mesmos compostos do NPK natural..nao to querendo te contrariar brother relaxa.. mas que da pra achar da sim. oque nao da é pra limpar a bunda com merda o resto pode tudo rsrsrsr

[Percoff]

Enquanto isso aqui no brasil tem gente que fuma ate bosta de cavalo achando que é maconha.rs

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Tem gente que fuma CRACK pensando que é maconha !

[Canadense]

ta e tu acha que pra chegar em um NPK os quimicos fzem oque canadense, misturam Nitrogenio,fosforo e potassio e ta pronto? pra virar nitrogenio,fosforo ou potassio sao varias misturas que sao acusadas em testes de laboratorio, que nao tem os mesmos compostos do NPK natural..nao to querendo te contrariar brother relaxa.. mas que da pra achar da sim. oque nao da é pra limpar a bunda com merda o resto pode tudo rsrsrsr

bom eu num sei de fato, porem acho duvidoso...

agora se tu tiver um link que me pode esclarecer melhor.... blz... pq senão vai ficar no eu acho e tu acha...

mas ae, o link era msm de agrotoxicos e mofo... os clubes num tem dessa de fins medicinais tem que ser organico...

[Reader66]

Fala rapaziada !

Já vi gente tomar grafite Faber-Castel e viajar legal e ainda por cima dar trabalho durante a onda.

Parece sacanagem mas não é.

A mente induzida viaja mesmo.

Abraço a todos.

[∆-9-THC]

nao tenho link algum, meu coroa que disse que é possivel, ele ja foi quimico e chefe em seguranca do polopetroquimico, deve saber mas que nos dois junto eu acho ne, nao to querendo dismerecer os quimicos canadense sei que tu te amarra neles, se os clubes nao discriminam os quimicos eos organicos nao tem nada porque eles so querem vender, o certo é que maconha medicinal tem que ser ou deveria ser organico como todo mundo sabe, agora tu vai me dizer que a maioria usa quimicos porque é mais saudavel ou simplesmente pq vai render mais $$$ na hora de vender.. nao vamos levar isso adiante cada um tem uma ideia ne, eu nao quero mudar teu pensamento nao, deixa o topico para outro tipo de discusao srsrs abrakos

[Na_Bruxa]

Acho que os beneficios valem o risco, como lá o pessoal gosta de

fazer tudo nos conforme tem que ter esse padrão mesmo...

[dogo420]

nao tenho link algum, meu coroa que disse que é possivel, ele ja foi quimico e chefe em seguranca do polopetroquimico, deve saber mas que nos dois junto eu acho ne, nao to querendo dismerecer os quimicos canadense sei que tu te amarra neles, se os clubes nao discriminam os quimicos eos organicos nao tem nada porque eles so querem vender, o certo é que maconha medicinal tem que ser ou deveria ser organico como todo mundo sabe, agora tu vai me dizer que a maioria usa quimicos porque é mais saudavel ou simplesmente pq vai render mais $$$ na hora de vender.. nao vamos levar isso adiante cada um tem uma ideia ne, eu nao quero mudar teu pensamento nao, deixa o topico para outro tipo de discusao srsrs abrakos

Tem que ser? Todo mundo sabe?

E qual é o problema de uma erva cultivada com fertilizantes minerais?