That legal weed you’ll be able to buy in California on New Year’s Day may not be as green as it seems.
Any marijuana sold when recreational sales become legal January 1 in the nation’s most populous state will have been grown without regulatory controls that will eventually be in place.
Pot could contain pesticides, molds and other contaminants.
‘Buyer beware,’ cautioned Donald Land, a University of California, Davis, chemistry professor who is the chief scientific consultant at Steep Hill Labs Inc., which tests marijuana in several states.
