What do labs test for in cannabis samples? And what must licensed producers do if data show fungus, pesticides or metals in their flower?

Featured guests from Keystone Labs: Jodi McDonald – President & Founder and Rod Szarka – VP, Marketing & Business Development

With coast-to-coast legalization of cannabis, Canada is a becoming a world leader in cannabis testing and research. Keystone Labs is a Health Canada-accredited testing facility, which offers analytical and microbiologic testing services for licensed producers and others in the green space. Cannabis is a growing portion of Keystone Labs’s business. So much so, they’ve recently partnered with EVIO Labs in the U.S.

How Keystone Labs entered the cannabis industry (2:00) How does “Keybox,” the personal cannabis test kit work? Is it like a cannabis DNA kit? (3:12) Is testing cannabis only for safety purposes? (4:15) Buying shares of Keystone Labs after it partnered with EVIO Labs ($EVIO) (6:21) Is there much competition in Canadian cannabis testing labs and how is it evolving? (9:24) Why an Ohio police department needed an MJ test (10:10) Who reaches out to Keystone Labs most often with questions about the safety of cannabis (14:30) Why a rising tide lifts all ships in the cannabis space (18:50) What’s next now that cannabis is legal in Canada? Under-the-radar growers? New strains with new terpene profiles? Growers following craft been market trend? (21:00) What’s it like working in the cannabis space as a non-cannabis consumer? (23:16) Why Canadian universities are adding cannabis programs to their fields of study (24:50)

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Watch testing at Keystone Labs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQCFsJAHTSo Learn more about Keystone Labs: https://keystonelabs.ca

Who are the scientists at EVIO Labs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K5cFyy5PMM Learn more about EVIO Labs: http://eviolabs.com