Testing labs should go away completely. It's one of those "bad info is worse than no info" situations. In fact most growers deserve to go out of business too. They're mostly all the same. None of the current operations will survive federal legalization. Not a one on the entire North American continent.
Why Cannabis labs are a joke:
THC doesn't matter, at all. See: Distillate. Rap music and weed marketing isn't real kids.
The aroma therapy terpene thing is also a marketing lie. See: Distillate with botanical terps. Doesn't smell like weed, doesn't taste like weed, doesn't feel like weed. Why bother testing for background noise bred into the plant by untrained backyard breeders, while ignoring metabolites actually characteristic of Cannabis aroma taste and effect?
Organic pesticides are just as bad or worse than chemical pesticides. See: Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome. Not sure why "black market" vapes with Vitamin E are bad, but to spray cooking oil jalapeño extract baking powder and fish oil on buds is acceptable.
Anyone who disagrees is delusional or doesn't smoke. One hit off a distillate pen and you know THC testing is pointless. One whiff of any lab tested terpenes and you know that's not what you're smelling in Cannabis. We know what causes couch lock. Most people buying Cannabis see myrcene on the label and pretend they know what couch lock is. Zero correlation to myrcene. Zero couch lock from dispensary bud. The face of getting high has completely changed into getting sick and groggy in the legal setting.
Most commercial growers don't have a clue what they are doing. They all came from grow forums it seems, or got educated by universities sponsored by ag companies. The handful who produce a potentially good product will dry it too wet and cold, then seal it up with no burp. Cannabis is a climacteric herb, meaning it's sensitive to ethylene, and needs to respire oxygen to ripen. More ethylene requires more oxygen. I've not see one single commercial grower who understands basic plant science let alone the intricacies of Cannabis. There is no difference from top to bottom shelf in legal stores. In fact most bottom shelf is better from my observations.
The art of Cannabis would be lost if it wasn't for a handful of large herb empires who are going to take over after federal legalization spreads to the USA. It's going to be nice seeing all these celebrity wannabe state program growers whine about how they didn't have enough money to learn how to produce a product that lasts longer than 3 months on the shelf before turning to hay/dust. The public has to be completely retrained about Cannabis after the bro market has spun all this false narrative to fit their capabilites.
Imagine throwing away orange slices and eating the orange peel. That's how backwards commercial Cannabis is right now. We'll have to force the public into accepting reality. America is a crazy place full of people who care about the color textures and storage temperature of the weed their pressed heated rosin extract comes from. This is why no one in state programs has the super loud bud of yesteryear. The breeders producing it were all bought out. When you understand the false terpene narrative originates from a pharmaceutical company, it should make sense. I don't think Todd McCormick and Jazz Pharmaceuticals are growing the same Skunk #1. Jazz isn't testing their strains for myrcene and limonene, why are all the Todd McCormicks out there? Because someone from Jazz pharmaceuticals (Ethan Russo) told them to lol.
Domestic Cannabis will be luxury Cannabis under federal legalization. You'll be buying that cheap Columbian shit after you lose your job working for Curaleaf. Americas wealth gap is being spread wider and wider. It will be like midevil times in 20 years, peasants shoveling shit in the streets for a gram of Greenhouse Columbo while Dukes and magnates run them down for laughs in self driven carriages.
