California Weed Lab Whistleblower Sues Agency Over Termination

California cannabis labs for months warned the state’s regulator that growers were pressuring them for favorable results, leading to contaminated products, according to a suit filed Tuesday by the former official responsible for overseeing testing labs, who says she was fired for raising concerns.

Private labs and an industry trade group sounded alarms repeatedly to the California’s Department of Cannabis Control that a failure to properly regulate testing was causing some labs to cheat, former Deputy Director of Laboratory Services Tanisha Bogans said in a Monday California Superior Court, Los Angeles County complaint.

But the department failed to react to ...