The Missouri chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is pushing back on the state’s new regulations that allow higher levels of potentially toxic vitamin E acetate in cannabis products, including vape cartridges.
Missouri’s marijuana authorities in July increased the permitted limit for vitamin E acetate in regulated marijuana products from 0.2 parts per million to 5 parts per million, raising concern among industry stakeholders.
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‘Not naturally in cannabis’
In an op-ed published in the Columbia Missourian, NORML’s board chair and Missouri coordinator, Dan Viets, wrote that “vitamin E acetate does not naturally occur in organic cannabis. If it is there, it is (present) only because someone has intentionally put it into the product.
“The addition of this
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