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LAB TESTING & STANDARDS

Exclusive: California promised clean weed. What happened?

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By Alex Halperin
02/19/2026 05:40 PM GMT-0700
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This is the third in a series of three stories on Nicole Elliott’s tenure as director of California’s Department of Cannabis Control (DCC). Here are Part One and Part Two.

In 2021, the year Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) appointed Nicole Elliott to lead California’s newly formed Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), the industry faced a testing crisis. As . . .

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