As contraband Chinese pesticides contaminate marijuana farms in California, officials have not issued warnings that the polluted drug could pose a fatal threat.
investigation. After California agencies raided illegal cannabis-growing warehouses in Oakland last September, investigators discovered packets of profenofos and fenpropathrin, toxic pesticides that are fatal if inhaled. Earlier last year, state officials found the same poisonous substances during a raid on 25 illegal farms in Siskiyou County.
Marijuana plants are displayed at a shop in San Francisco on Monday, March 20, 2023. that the congressman’s concerns about the problem have been ignored by the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Pesticide Regulation, and wildlife agencies. LaMalfa’s chief of staff, Mark Spannagel, said that in Siskiyou County, cartels have been operating cannabis farms that are full of Chinese fertilizers and pesticides not permitted in the United States.
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