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>> we can test for pesticides, we can test for molds, mildews, we can test for residual solvents. >> testing for contamination. one of the biggest hurdles to creating a safe product. recent studies on the contamination on medical marijuana are pretty alarming. one paper showed pesticide residue as high as 69% in a batch of medical marijuana. it's one of the things that concerns main stream doctors about medical marijuana, safety, as well as uniformity and reliability. >> the major issue that physicians have is in the consistency of the product. how do you know what the person is getting? and t...

>> the scientists here, some of whom worked at major pharmaceutical companies, are focused on both making the medications and maintaining strict quality control. >> we can test for pesticides, we can test for molds, mildews, we can test for residual solvents. >> testing for contamination. one of the biggest hurdles to creating a safe product. recent studies on the contamination on medical marijuana are pretty alarming. one paper showed pesticide residue as high as 69% in a batch of medical marijuana. it's one of the things that concerns main stream doctors about medical marijuana, safety, as w...

We can test for residual solvents. >> testing for contamination. one of the biggest hurdles to creating a safe product. recent studies on the contamination on medical marijuana are pretty alarming. one paper showed pesticide residue as high as 69% in a batch of medical marijuana. it's one of the things that concerns main stream doctors about medical marijuana, safety, as well as uniformity and reliability. >> the major issue that physicians have is in the consistency of the product. how do you know what the person is getting? and the answer is, we don't. >> neurologist dr. edward mau is the ch...

Homes, does it seem to you like stuff is getting cleaned? >> well, you're right. the storm that came through last night was a very serious storm. we had a lot of damage. arkansas gets tornadoes this time of year. when you have containers filled with oil-soaked soil and oily water all set in a staging area, yesterday afternoon, i said, just god forbid what happens if we have a tornado in the staging area? what do we do about that? lots of water, a lot of runoff because of the storm. so we were very concerned about it. you're right. it's not just light sweet crude. it is heavy tar sand crude. of...

So we were very concerned about it. you're right. it's not just light sweet crude. it is heavy tar sand crude. of course, we don't know what the solvents are. i still want to know and i don't know if they've included that in what they provided to me. it's 12,000 pages, so we haven't got it all digested within the last 24 hours. but there are obviously a lot of chemicals that are incorporated into the product. i need to know what those are as well. >> arkansas attorney general dustin mcdaniels. thank you for your time tonight. before you go, i feel like i need to tell our audience they apprecia...