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Edible medical marijuana items lack safety regulation

Aa pedestrian walks past neon sign advertising a

Photo credit: AP | Aa pedestrian walks past neon sign advertising a medical marijuana provider along a street in Los Angeles. (Jan. 26, 2010)

In Washington state's scantily regulated medical-marijuana industry, no one is checking how marijuana-infused food and drink products are made, or how safe they are.

A dizzying array of cannabis-infused products, called "medibles" -- from taco mix to cotton candy, from pulled pork to carbonated colas -- have begun showing up in the past two years on the shelves at storefront marijuana dispensaries.

Medibles...

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