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Amazon Will Stop Testing Job Seekers For Marijuana And Now Backs Legalizing Weed

By NPR News June 2, 2021

Amazon will no longer test most job applicants for marijuana use in the latest sign of America's changing relationship with pot. Amazon, the second-largest private employer in the U.S., also says it now backs legalizing marijuana nationwide. Read More

Centralia Pot Testing Lab May Be First In Washington To Lose Its License

By NWPB News April 17, 2021

In this file photograph, trimmed cannabis flowers are seen at a marijuana production facility in Seattle during 2017. CREDIT: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut

In a converted 107-year-old former bank building in Centralia’s quaint downtown, Praxis Laboratory tested pot from growers across the state. Small samples of marijuana flowers would arrive in baggies. Maybe 4 grams or so from every few square feet of leafy canopy. Read More

Vitamin E Suspected In Serious Lung Problems Among People Who Vaped Cannabis

By NPR News September 5, 2019

The New York State Department of Health said Thursday that it is looking at vitamin E acetate as a potential cause of severe pulmonary illness cases in the state that have been associated with vaping. CREDIT: Daniel Becerril/Reuters

New York officials say tests found high levels of vitamin E in cannabis vaping products used by people who developed lung damage. But it's only one of many possible causes still under investigation. Continue Reading Vitamin Read More

Spate Of Illicit Western Washington Pot Busts Suggests Connections To China, Forced Labor

By Tom Banse June 21, 2018

Living rooms and bedrooms were found filled with marijuana plants in different stages of maturity.

In Tacoma, police tactical squads staged coordinated raids on middle class homes converted into indoor pot farms. What the authorities found follows a recent pattern in West Coast states: all of the marijuana growers arrested were immigrants from China who spoke little or no English. Read More