California’s marijuana regulatory agency is denying claims that a former top official was fired for highlighting widespread problems at state-licensed testing labs under her supervision, according to court documents obtained by MJBizDaily.
The filing by the state’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) in Los Angeles Superior Court countered allegations levied by Tanisha Bogans as to why she was fired as former deputy director of laboratory services at the agency.
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Bogans claimed in a September lawsuit that she was fired in January after sharing reports of rampant THC-potency inflation and labs’ deliberate failures to detect pesticides and mold.
The pesticides scandal has plagued the California cannabis market for months, prompting regulators to revoke the business licenses of testing labs and at least one
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