OUR MISSION:
TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH, CONSUMER SAFETY, AND SAFEGUARD THE ENVIRONMENT BY PROMOTING INTEGRITY IN THE CANNABIS INDUSTRY

Events

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The Elevated Conference was designed with the intention of educating and informing canna-businesses, large and small, about current and future legislation involving cannabis production, distribution and sales in California, as well as to provide a venue in which we can exchange information about best-practices and pool our collective strength to present a united front within the cannabis industry. Read more

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The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drug policy takes place next week in New York City. This Special Session is an important milestone in achieving the goals set in the policy document of 2009 “Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem”, which defined action to be taken by Member States as well as goals to be achieved by 2019. Read More

News

ASTM International Launches Cannabis Committee

The global standards organization formed the committee to focus on “creating technical standards and guidance materials for cannabis and its products and processes." According to a press release published March 1st, ASTM International formed a committee focusing on...

Business Executive article 2017

By Lezli Engelking  Hearing about the lack of standards in the cannabis industry comes as quite a surprise to most. After all, cannabis is one of the most highly regulated industries in existence today. Complicated terminology and varied definitions, however,...

Quality Gurus and their Key Contributions

Philip Crosby:  The Four Absolutes of Quality Management:  Quality is conformance to requirements Quality prevention is preferable to quality inspection Zero defects is the quality performance standard Quality is measured in monetary terms – the price of...

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