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Santa Cruz Medical Marijuana Dispensary Sees Advantage of Clean Green Certification
Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals, the only Clean Green Certified collective in Santa Cruz County, benefits from rigorous health and safety standards.
BUFFALO, NY, September 03, 2011 /Medical PR News/ -- Fifteen years after medical marijuana was legalized in California, there are still few regulations governing safety standards. It has fallen to concerned people within the industry to take charge of their own health and safety certification. Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals, a medical cannabis collective in Aptos, CA, has chosen to undergo evaluation by the Clean Green Certified third-party medical marijuana inspection program for safety and legal compliance.
The Clean Green Certification Program, created by California medical cannabis compliance lawyer Chris Van Hook, is setting a new standard for medical cannabis quality control. The independent third-party verification program assures medical cannabis bearing its label is grown without harmful chemicals and fertilizers, and is compliant with strict quality control and legal practice standards from seed to final patient.
In order for collectives including Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals to get Clean Green Certified status, they must also be inspected for safety and cleanliness. They must assure their legal compliance with medical marijuana standards in California by having demonstrable policies in place for non-diversion of product into the illegal market. They must have a documented "closed loop" arrangement showing that their product is grown by members and distributed to members, and everyone involved has a current doctor's recommendation. Further, they are required to have a method of controlling access to the facility.
"We are proud to certify Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals. Members of the collective are truly dedicated to getting reliably safe medicine to their patients," said Van Hook.
Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals was formed because of the need for patients to have access to safe and reliable medicine from a trustworthy source. As the only Clean Green Certified medical marijuana dispensary in Santa Cruz County, the collective is able to offer members a level of assurance about the quality of their products and policies that is unrivaled by area dispensaries.
The dispensary tests all of its medicine, including buds that are Clean Green Certified, with nearby SC Laboratories, which tests for a wide variety of pesticides and microbiological contaminants, and analyzes potency. SC Laboratories, the official testing lab of Weedmaps, was founded to help bring the scientific rigor used in the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries to the medical marijuana industry.
"We see it as a positive way to move medical cannabis beyond the counterculture and into the mainstream," says co-founder Alec Dixon. "The increase in testing will provide a self-correcting instrument in this industry and help edge out the people who may not be in it for the right reasons."
In an article about California medical cannabis certification recently featured in the LA Times, Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals founder Colin Disheroon explained his concerns about the general lack of standards in the medical marijuana industry, and said he hopes implementing these standards will help lead to national reform.
"This is an industry where we're really at the front edge of regulation right now," Disheroon said. "If this industry is going to emerge into the light of day across the nation, it has to have the right things in place."
This voluntary participation in the Clean Green Certification program has helped Santa Cruz Mountain Naturals gain a reputation as a trustworthy source of medical marijuana. For more information on the Clean Green Certified program visit www.cleangreencert.com.
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