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Most retail cannabis may be less potent than claimed, with THC being at least 15% less potent than reported on the label in around 70% of products sampled in Colorado

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PLOS

Uncomfortably high: Testing reveals inflated THC potency on retail Cannabis labels

image: Most retail cannabis may be less potent than claimed, with THC being at least 15% less potent than reported on the label in around 70% of products sampled in Colorado. view more 

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282396

Article Title: Uncomfortably high: Testing reveals inflated THC potency on retail Cannabis labels

Author Countries: USA

Funding: Headspace Sensory LLC provided funding for purchase of 13 of the 23 Cannabis samples that were included as part of another study [47], but had no other involvement in this study. All other funding was provided by the McGlaughlin Lab at the University of Northern Colorado and by the first author. Mile High Labs provided support for this study in the form of salaries for VJ and JH. The specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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