The Schwag Report, Volume One

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The Schwag Report
Volume One
By: Dan Tomaski, Owner of Northern Laboratory Services

‘Brickweed’, ‘dirtweed’, ‘the dirty brown’, ‘commercial’, ‘regs’; everyone has their term to describe
what is commonly known as ‘schwag’. Schwag is normally low quality, compressed, mass produced,
cannabis sold by drug cartels. Some of it is grown domestically, and some of it is imported. Almost
none of it is suitable for medical use, and may even be dangerous to life and health, especially to those
already weakened by a debilitating medical condition.

I own and operate Northern Laboratory Services, a medical cannabis purity and potency testing
laboratory based in Gaylord, MI. We use a dual column Gas Chromatograph equipped with a Flame
Ionization Detector and Electron Capture Detector. This equipment allows us to determine the potency
and purity of medical cannabis. We test for three major cannabinoids – THC, CBD, and CBN – and 6
major pesticides – Fipronil, Bifenthrin, Cyalothrin, Cyfluthrin, Permethrins, and Cypermethrins.
We recently decided to acquire samples of some of this cartel schwag as a fact finding exercise with the
hopes of educating patients, legislators, and the public about what is in this cartel product, and what
some patients are going to be forced back into using if the Michigan Legislature and Courts decide to
gut our 2008 voter initiated amendment to the Michigan State Constitution allowing for medical use of
marijuana by qualifying patients. This law also allows caregivers or patients to grow medicine
themselves, so they no longer have to rely on sub-standard cartel product and risk life and limb to
acquire it from a street dealer. Now it seems, with the recent court of appeals ruling closing down many
‘pot shops’ around the state combined with a severe shortage of quality caregivers, some patients are
going to be forced back into using this black market poison.

We tested four different samples of cartel product from around the state, two from the Metro Detroit
area and two from the Northern Lower Peninsula. These samples proved to be very low potency, had
lots of visual contaminants like mold, and dirt, suspected insect droppings, along with other
unidentified contaminants, and were loaded with pesticides. For reference, spinach has a federal
tolerance of 20 ppm of Permethrins, 14 ppm of Cypermethrins, and 7 ppm of beta-Cyfluthrin.
Common pesticides containing these chemicals are Raid Yard Guard, Spectracide 3X Insect Control,
and Raid Concentrated Deep Reach Fogger. Seems like the samples with the highest levels of what we
suspect to be insect droppings also had the highest levels of pesticide. The results are listed below:





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[Mnemosyne]

1. Thank you, Dan, very interesting and important info. n/t

[brooklyn297]

2. +1