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California and other states legalized recreational weed — fewer than one percent of those people worked in testing labs. That small number includes administrative staff and low-level technicians, meaning even fewer know how to test for the specific elements the state has now laid out. Lori Glauser, the co-founder and COO of cannabis-testing company EVIO (formerly named Signal Bay), estimates there are 30 people across the United States with the kind of experience California is requiring. The few expert level cannabis-testing labs that do exist here are relatively new; when Miller founded her lab, Pure Analytics, seven years ago, she said it was the third cannabis-testing lab in California and the fourth in the nation.

*Glauser took a long view of the regulatory process. It was stressful at first, particularly for growers, some of whom hadn’t paid much attention to the regulation conversation. Many in the industry lost money those first few months. “We spent a tremendous amount of time just educating the market,” Glauser said.

*Oregon is a much smaller state with fewer testing regulations. If Oregon is any example though, Glauser said California labs can expect to get flooded with marijuana, see a backup in the labs, experience huge stress in the industry, and, eventually, find an evening out.

*Meanwhile, EVIO is on a hiring spree in California, where they’re getting ready to open a handful of new labs in the north and the south. (The Central Valley is a bit of a dead zone for weed testing, both because it doesn’t have comparable population centers and because there’s enough pesticide drift there that Central Valley weed rarely tests clean unless it’s grown indoors.) “There are lots of people who are chemists with experience testing similar substances and using this kind of equipment – maybe they test grapes or pharmaceuticals,” Glauser said. “But I haven’t seen many migrating into cannabis yet.” She hopes to win the best of California’s fruit and pharma testers over to the weed side.

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