California officials have discovered a new illegal import from China posing a health threat to Americans – smuggled pesticides used to grow cannabis in the state.
State cannabis regulators during an organized raids late last year, in a licensed Oakland cannabis warehouse building, found bags of unknown pesticides labeled in Chinese, according to a recently published investigation by The Los Angeles Times.
The bags contained packets of wood shavings soaking in the unknown material, similar to pesticides found on illegal farms earlier last year.
The Times reports that lab tests found the shaving to have a “cocktail of dangerous insecticides and fungicides that when burned would emit a cloud of pest- and mold-killing smoke.Among the chemicals detected were isoprocarb, which is not permitted in the U.S.; profenofos, an organophosphate so harmful its use here was discontinued in 2016; and fenpropathrin, an toxic insecticide fatal if inhaled, the newspaper reports.“I think the scariest […]
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