Montana officials and marijuana providers gathered in Helena this week to sort through the tenuous position of an industry with as much product as ever but only a single testing laboratory to verify it’s safely void of pesticides.

While the number of testing labs has whittled down to a small few in recent years, things became acute in May after the state Cannabis Control Division expanded its list of pesticides required for testing in marijuana products before they are sold. In turn, state regulators suspended one of the two licensed testing laboratories from screening for pesticides because its methods were well outside of scientific standards required by the state, reportedly passing products that failed elsewhere.

The Cannabis Control Division has launched investigations into lab disc

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