Illegal pesticides in cannabis cultivation raise safety concerns. This article explores regulatory challenges and the need ...

Charred remnants of illegal toxic pesticides burned in a California cannabis grow. (Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times) In coordinated raids in September, multiple California agencies stormed a ...

Ecologist Greta Wengert warns that illegal cannabis grows are polluting California's public lands.

Illegal cannabis farms are quietly turning parts of California’s public forests into toxic dumps, where pesticides, rat poison and fertilizer residues linger long after growers vanish. Even as the ...

In Colorado and other states where recreational or medical pot is legal, a tremendous amount of money is riding these days on healthy cannabis crops. But unlike, say, a corn farmer, growers in the ...

DENVER (AP) — Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor scientists have any ...

Familiar with the expression, “You are what you eat”? For cannabis consumers, “You are what you smoke,” applies as well. Many medical marijuana cardholders in Florida, especially those who take ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A local lab is warning about a "concerning" level of pesticides found in some cannabis products. At Infinite Chemical Analysis Labs, emerging from a heap of charts and numbers, is a ...

Pesticides and herbicides have been in the news recently, with the publication of a new JAMA Internal Medicine study, which suggests that people may be able to lower their overall risk of developing ...

In coordinated raids last September, multiple California agencies stormed a network of illegal cannabis-growing warehouses across Oakland while state cannabis regulators singled out a salmon-colored ...