Michigan regulators issued the first recall of medical marijuana products since the state’s new licensing and testing system went into place last year.
David Harns, spokesman for Michigan’s MMJ program, said the statewide monitoring system detected five different cannabis-infused tinctures and patches being sold at certain dispensaries that “weren’t connected to any testing result and sent out a red flag.”
While the products hadn’t been tested, they weren’t necessarily unsafe.
Choice Labs, a Jackson, Michigan, company that processed and distributed the untested batches, won’t face any fines or disciplinary action because the state attributed the mistake to a processor input error and lack of proper training in using the new seed-to-sale tracking system.
He said the voluntary recall is important because it shows that “we have the ability to make sure the product out there is safe. The fact is that we were able to spot and act quickly to remedy the situation.”
The five different MMJ products were being sold at between nine and 15 dispensaries each.
The recalled products are:
- Mary’s Transdermal Indica Patches
- The Remedy Tincture-Mary’s
- Mary’s Transdermal Patches CBD
- The Coltyn 1:1 Tincture
- Mary’s Transdermal 1:1 Patches
Some of the products already had been sold. Patients or caregivers who purchased the product were advised to return them to the dispensaries for disposal or retesting by Choice Labs.
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HEMP WILL SAVE THE WORLD. You are a**holes
What is your issue here? This article has nothing to do with hemp.
LARA seems to have handled this well, not issuing fines or anything and stating people need better training on the METRC system.
Your comment is unhelpful and makes hemp-advocates and pro-marijuana folks look uneducated.
Thanks to Michigan recall and licencing all the despencers are closed or have no product hevy handed indeed… wasn’t a problem before December 31… thanks Michigan government for screwing mmmp holders