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WildBill wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:44 pm

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 1:30 pm

Rob72 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:52 am

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:21 am
I LOL'd at this bit....

Stout said it can cost between $500,000 and $600,000 for a lab to purchase the equipment needed to test concentration levels. He said it then takes between nine and 12 months of validation and accreditation before a lab is certified to test for THC concentration levels.

Back in the day I ran a drugs of abuse testing facility. Unless costs have skyrocketed (they haven't), one set of equipment to "determine" (not "test") concentration of THC in a sample should cost less than $100,000 (~75K plus supplies). Except maybe if you're a government purchasing entity. LOL.

ETA: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/b ... 01325F.htm
The language pertaining to Consumable Hemp is down near the bottom.

NIDA or SAMHSA certified? Medico-legal certification is substantially different than simply presence/absence standards.

NIDA.

You can buy an Agilent GC/MS for about $75k, last time I checked.

I especially enjoyed buying material to make standards. <$10 for 50 grams of pure cocaine. From a catalog, like buying from Sears.
Of course you needed a license for it... but... still was amusing.

In addition to analytical instruments, there is a lot of infrastructure required to certify and maintain the lab.
I can believe an initial cost of $500K for setting up the lab. Also you need a trained staff to manage the lab, chemists,
technicians, computers, etc. That could easily cost $400K per year.

True. And if you do screening by RIA, those instruments can be spendy.

Rob72 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:52 am

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:21 am
I LOL'd at this bit....

Stout said it can cost between $500,000 and $600,000 for a lab to purchase the equipment needed to test concentration levels. He said it then takes between nine and 12 months of validation and accreditation before a lab is certified to test for THC concentration levels.

Back in the day I ran a drugs of abuse testing facility. Unless costs have skyrocketed (they haven't), one set of equipment to "determine" (not "test") concentration of THC in a sample should cost less than $100,000 (~75K plus supplies). Except maybe if you're a government purchasing entity. LOL.

ETA: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/b ... 01325F.htm
The language pertaining to Consumable Hemp is down near the bottom.

NIDA or SAMHSA certified? Medico-legal certification is substantially different than simply presence/absence standards.

NIDA.

You can buy an Agilent GC/MS for about $75k, last time I checked.

I especially enjoyed buying material to make standards. <$10 for 50 grams of pure cocaine. From a catalog, like buying from Sears.
Of course you needed a license for it... but... still was amusing.

First... This is EXCELLENT news. People should be able to take advantage of emerging treatments that use CBD (cannabadiol) without fear of prosecution, if they choose to do so. 0.3% (or less) has been the standard elsewhere for max allowable THC in CBD, so it's good that we use the same standard here.

Prior to this law, as has been described in this thread, ANY amount of THC in a sample would require that the entire weight of the item be counted as "illegal THC". So a 4 ounce bottle of CBD would be counted as 4 ounces of illegal substance (felony) even though that CBD, if less than 0.3% THC, would have zero psychoactive effects. Zero.

I LOL'd at this bit....

Stout said it can cost between $500,000 and $600,000 for a lab to purchase the equipment needed to test concentration levels. He said it then takes between nine and 12 months of validation and accreditation before a lab is certified to test for THC concentration levels.

Back in the day I ran a drugs of abuse testing facility. Unless costs have skyrocketed (they haven't), one set of equipment to "determine" (not "test") concentration of THC in a sample should cost less than $100,000 (~75K plus supplies). Except maybe if you're a government purchasing entity. LOL.

ETA: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/b ... 01325F.htm
The language pertaining to Consumable Hemp is down near the bottom.