Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access

Zachary J Zimmermann

Publications

• Research Article
  Marijuana Toxicity: Heavy Metal Exposure Through State-Sponsored Access to �?¢�?�?��?�?la Fee Verte�?¢�?�?��?
  Author(s): David V Gauvin, Zachary J Zimmermann, Joshua Yoder and Rachel TappDavid V Gauvin, Zachary J Zimmermann, Joshua Yoder and Rachel Tapp
  
  Federally unregulated, marijuana growth organizations (MGOs) have now provided a path to exposures to the neurotoxicity of heavy metals. The lack of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing and oversight of the MGOs now threatens the public health. Agribusiness and botany experts proclaim the value of cannabis as a perfect rotating plant for phytoremediation programs to help scavenge heavy metals from soils prior to seeding the land for food product. Cannabis has a high affinity for soil contaminants without affecting its own heartiness. However, “legal” marijuana plots have burgeoned in the “Emerald Triangle” of Northern California, Oregon and Washington. According to the FDA’s toxicology prog.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7689.1000202

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