Friday, February 23, 2024

Health Dept Revokes License of Med Marijuana Testing Company

 The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement. 

The Mississippi State Department of Health, through the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program (MMCP), announced its intent to revoke the license of Rapid Analytics, LLC, a medical cannabis testing facility. This decision follows an investigation conducted between December 21, 2023, and February 9, 2024, revealing significant deviations from regulatory standards and approved procedures.

 

Medical cannabis testing is critical to ensuring product safety for patients, and Rapid Analytics' disregard for regulatory compliance poses a threat to public health and welfare. As such, MSDH has determined to revoke the establishment's license effective March 13, 2024.

 

Rapid Analytics, LLC has the right to appeal this decision within twenty days. Failure to appeal will result in the revocation of the license.


Kingfish note: This bureaucratic gobbledygook needs some translating.  Translation: The Health Department determined Rapid's test of medical marijuana products reported lower THC levels than were actually in the product.  Sort of like those street radar signs that measure your speed and always seem to report your speed as being a few mph below what it actually is. 




 

34 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh no, we've got to get these people their precious "medicine". Help, help.

Cheech said...

Let me be blunt. Good job in weeding out the incompetent labs.

Anonymous said...

And everyone should trust MSDH, the most incompetent tax-payer funded agency in Mississippi.

Anonymous said...



Lab to undergo name change to Precision Analytics-

Anonymous said...

Glad they are revoking the license. This is one of those 'you had one job' kind of things. If you cannot trust what you are told is in the product then that's unacceptable.

Diddywahdiddy said...

Who is the owner, or who are the members of the LLC that hold title to this company?

Cheech Marin said...

“The buying and selling of dope in this country may be the last vestige of free enterprise left.” - The Narcs: Sergeant Stedenko

Anonymous said...

@ 9:11 my thoughts exactly. I have a friend that has a buiness next to one of these "dispenseries". The folks going in look like the walking dead cast. If you are going to allow "medical mary jane" just legalize it. The radio ads that say "if our dr does not get you a prescription you don't pay for the visit" sums it up. And before you jump on me about how its just like alcohol, its not. Marijuana is much easier to consume and its happening all day. I was at a gas station the other day at 7:30am and a college girl was sitting in her car toking one. You think she would be swilling alcohol before class like that? Lastly, I am sick of smelling it everywhere I go.

Anonymous said...

Wow, this was unexpected.....said no one every.

Anonymous said...

Things like this happen when your only competition is a politically connected individual.

Anonymous said...

10:58 no, it's the state trying to keep these places from becoming just street dealers with a roof. And so many customers don't need pot for a medical issue, they just want it. As a previous commenter pointed out, the dispensaries are not just selling pot, but they are also selling a path to a prescription. That tells you all you need to know about these places.

Anonymous said...

@10:30 It sounds like you need to smoke a little and chill out brother

Anonymous said...

Find me a person who wants to smoke pot, and I will find you a qualifying ailment.

Anonymous said...

Any word on where this facility is and the names of business partners who own it...Or are you gonna scream that we do our own research or check an archive?

If anybody needs a daily weed-chill, it's Kingfish.

Anonymous said...

The partakers don't care. That's why it's called dope. The crap is everywhere. They are just one step away from being a street junkie.

Anonymous said...

For all you smart people. It's a lab, only one of two in the state. NOT a dispensery. When yours truly, Stacy Pickering, owns the only other one, tell me it's not politically motivated. The health department never shuts anything down for a first offense. Even your local fried housecat restaurant gets a second chance. And, no, I don't have a dog in the hunt. Just hate the hood ol boy system.

Anonymous said...

@ 10:30 - If you haven't been told yet that you're full of shit, let me be the first to break the news.

You, or your 'friend', who I'm sure does not exist, are lying through your teeth.

I visited my dispensary of choice today. When ushered into the room where product-advice/counseling is given and orders are placed, there were three women and two gentlemen. While there, two more men came in.

All three of the ladies appeared to be in their forties and were being counseled on products, product strength, which might be best for daytime use or for sleep. They were well dressed and I have no idea what their ailment is that qualifies them. None were zombies.

Both of the men were well dressed and one was chatting about college baseball and Ole Miss losing a game. Again, I have no idea what qualifies them and they had no idea what qualifies me.

Whether any of them has cancer, Crones (sp) disease, service-connected PTSD or debilitating pain, I have no clue. Neither do you. Did I tell you yet that you're full of shit?

Anonymous said...

@ 10:30am - No high school or college student has ever consumed alcohol before class. Said no one ever!

Anonymous said...

3:57 are you suggesting Pickering snuck into their lab and made sure there were violations and compliance failures? You need to pack more gear if you're going to fling accusations - I'd say you don't have much if all you have is who owns the other lab.

Anonymous said...

It was easier in the good ol' days when you could just go to your neighborhood street pharmacist and get your prescription filled. But big business always has to take the small business man out.

Anonymous said...

https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2024/02/23/rapid-analytics-owner-says-company-appealing-state-decision-to-revoke-license/

Anonymous said...

The bottom line is this: the toker is simply looking for a legal path to getting fucked up, period. Just wait, he’ll find — he’ll make up — an ailment, and there will appear a herd of licensed doctors who’ll write the script for him.

Anonymous said...

@6:34 PM - Were the two men named Cheech and Chong?

Anonymous said...

Dr. Feelgood: "Find me a "patient" who wants to smoke pot, and I will find you a qualifying ailment."

Anonymous said...

Can we simply put the MS weed junkies on a cattle truck and ship them to a CA/CO/WA/OR pot grow center to live in tents and work/beg for dope? Oh, those jobs are taken?

Anonymous said...

Who is the owner, or who are the members of the LLC that hold title to this company?

Easily found at the Secretary of State's web site - Business search.

Anonymous said...

Then, 12:47, please reveal the results of your search.

Anonymous said...

Then, 12:47, please reveal the results of your search.

https://corp.sos.ms.gov/corp/portal/c/page/corpBusinessIdSearch/portal.aspx#clear=1

Do you have the internet?

Anonymous said...

I firmly believe that there is a place for compassionate cannabis. People who have terminal cancer, end of life hospice care, and such, but if you watch the first 30 mins of Saving Private Ryan you just qualified for a PTSD diagnosis by a green medical doctor. , it is true, patients are driving around after waking and baking. The department of revenue is responsible for the permitting of dispensaries, and has done nothing to enforce their own laws and several circumstances. So bottom line you have products given to people without qualifying conditions, based on lies, and are being sold cannabis, which is stronger than advertised because no one cares. The governor needs to give the medical license board control of this program and force doctors to be within the standard of care for a qualifying condition that are refractory to standard treatment. Sadly, the health department and the department of revenue are the only ones in charge and five years max it will become fully recreational just like alcohol, available without a card to anyone that wants it.

Anonymous said...

Depends on which source you believe. The newspaper which reported the appeal listed some woman as owner. The SOS office reports two guys as principles and using a search engine reveals two entirely different principles.

So, yes, 7:35, I do. Here's a hint: If not, I wouldn't be able to read your drivel on this blog.

Anonymous said...

"Sadly, the health department and the department of revenue are the only ones in charge and five years max it will become fully recreational just like alcohol, available without a card to anyone that wants it."

That analysis is the polar opposite of multiple reports claiming there are too many dispensaries to support the low number of qualifying (applying?) 'patients'.

Do your homework before popping off.

Anonymous said...

This is what happens when we let our elderly grandparents reefer madness the medical marijuana program.

Just a reminder that alcohol still reigns supreme as the most deadly drug + 140,000 deaths in 2023 alone.

Fentanyl only killed 112,000 and with narrow minds we refer to that as a tragic epidemic here in US.

Anonymous said...

Hint to Kingfish: Google the only member listed on the SOS listing and add the word cannabis and see what you come up with.

Anonymous said...

https://www.ganjapreneur.com/oklahoma-to-revoke-testing-labs-license-amid-scandal/

Connect the dots



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