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Flower Testing: One-man lab in pink Upland bedroom

Here's some DD about Flower Potency Testing:

The Flower Testing Contact page lists the contact number as 323-379-5727

http://www.flowertesting.com/contact


A google search of that number give a Google+ page for Flower Testing:

https://plus.google.com/110984045248379326359/about


One of the comments on the page refers to the owner as "Jake". A search of "Jake" and "Flower Potency Testing" returns a page at the website F6S that shows a Jake Bhattacharya as the founder of Flower Potency Testing:

https://www.f6s.com/flowerpotencytesting


Apparently, Jake is an IT tech, who is an occasional stand-up comic:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakebhattacharya

https://www.facebook.com/indianonthemic


A little more searching results in a June 25, 2016 article at DailyBulletin.com, "Marijuana Industry Increasingly Hot Career Path", in which Jake's company is described as follows:

Before he opened a testing lab in Upland, Jake Bhattacharya didn’t notice the lack of labels on marijuana products he consumed.

Today, the 28-year-old preaches the importance of measuring how “fragrant terpenes” (pungent, oily compounds secreted by the plant) affect the “analgesic power” (pain-relieving benefits) of cannabis.

“People want this information,” said Bhattacharya, a long-haired Bernie Sanders supporter who occasionally does stand-up comedy. “That’s what makes it a legitimate, normalized drug — when it’s tested.”

A technology buff, Bhattacharya was making a good living working on computers and copy machines.

But he wasn’t happy or making the money he needed to buy the house on the hill he’s sought since his parents emigrated from Bangladesh.

So six months ago, he launched Flower Potency Labs.

Calibrating his $8,000 gas chromatography testing machine isn’t much different from calibrating copy machines, he said. To bridge the gap, he took a course offered by the machine manufacturer on preparing samples.

“There are a lot of procedures that go into testing,” he said. “But once you know them like the back of your hand, you can knock out some very accurate tests in a short amount of time.”

His lab is a pink-walled room in his home, and he’s still pursuing what’s now a voluntary accreditation. So he’s fighting to compete with more sophisticated labs by offering slightly faster, cheaper potency tests.

He tells suppliers that labeling their wares with test results will boost their professionalism and justify charging a premium for potent products, the same way brewers charge more for high-alcohol ales.

Still, he said it’s tough persuading them to fork over $65 for tests that won’t be required until 2018, under state regulations recently signed into law.

Bhattacharya hopes to grow Flower Potency Labs to be ready for that boom. “I want to be a real player in the industry,” he said.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20160625/marijuana-industry-increasingly-hot-career-path

Here's a photo of Jake in his "lab":



So Flower Potency Testing is a one-man operation in a pink bedroom in Upland, and the owner/lab tech was still working on voluntary accreditation as of June, 2016.

How much of that $65/test will Basu and PPJE receive?