Brandan Flores has had chronic back pain, but he has been treating it with marijuana for years. He has said that this is the best natural remedy as opposed to normal medication. However, he has been hearing of a new byproduct of the drug that may make it not as great as he once thought.
“There was talk about Eagle 20,” he stated, “and it concerned me right away.”
Eagle 20 is a fungicide that is used to kill pests that try to eat crops such as hops and grapes. The fungicide has a chemical called myclobutanil; it produces cyanide gas when burned.
He was absolutely surprised that he may be inhaling some type of cyanide. Because of this, Flores and Brandie Larrabee, another medical marijuana user for her brain tumors, sued the growers of the plant. This is the first “product liability lawsuit against the marijuana industry.”
“I want these companies to take a step back and look at what they are putting into their products,” said Flores after suing in Denver District Court. “These warehouses are getting big and really sloppy. They are adding chemicals to make things more efficient and more potent. But there are so many chemicals now that you might as well get prescription medication.”
The company being sued was LivWell Inc., which owns nine marijuana shops in Colorado, a state that has had marijuana legalized for over a year. LivWell actually runs one of the biggest grow houses in the world. LivWell’s lawyer, Dean Heizer, when asked to answer some questions, refused to answer. Before that, though, he did tell the Associated Press that the company stopped using Eagle 20 and that there were no reported illnesses had been linked to any pesticides.
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