$200,000 Fine: Using Pesticides and Falsifying Records.
The Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) recently fined Garden Remedies—a Newton, MA manufacturing and cultivation plant—$200,000 for using Wood’s Rooting Hormone, a banned pesticide. The discovery was made when someone tipped authorities off that invoices had been doctored to remove the purchase of illegal pesticides.
Garden Remedies claims to have fired those responsible and executives for the company say they, “take responsibility” and will make “substantive changes” to how they do business.
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