Rescheduling: Pesticides, Patient Safety, and Healthcare Provider Knowledge - 2026 Journal CLub Announcement
Rescheduling: Pesticides, Patient Safety, and Healthcare Provider Knowledge
Time: June 2nd, 2025 Noon EST
Location – Virtual Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83722922366?pwd=QjZ3V0xNWHZ0OVZ0b3BpbWd3STRqUT09
Event Description
This month at Cerium Journal Club, we’re diving into a timely and increasingly important topic: pesticides in cannabis products and what that means for patient safety, regulation, and public health.
Our featured paper is:
The authors make a compelling argument that most state pesticide action levels for cannabis are not actually based on cannabis-specific human health data—but instead on detection limits, assumptions borrowed from other crops, and a regulatory patchwork built without federal guidance.
We’ll discuss:
• Why pesticide limits in cannabis are often based more on what labs can detect than what protects patients
• The unique risks for medical cannabis patients, especially those with neurological disease, immune compromise, or chronic high-frequency use
• Why inhalation changes the toxicology equation—because smoking and vaporizing cannabis is not the same as eating watermelon
• The problem of concentrates potentially concentrating contaminants right alongside cannabinoids
• Whether current COAs and state regulations are truly serving public health—or simply performing regulatory theater
One striking point: studies suggest that 10–70% of pesticide residues can transfer from cannabis flower into smoke depending on the smoking device used, and some compounds like myclobutanil may decompose into toxic byproducts such as hydrogen cyanide when heated.
Join us for a thoughtful discussion where toxicology meets policy, and where the certificate of analysis may be only the beginning of the story.
Speakers
Phil Molloy, MD – Clinical education expert
Teresa Simon, MPH – Public health epidemiologist
Len Kamen, MD – Clinical pain specialist
Jahan Marcu, PhD – Cannabis researcher
Questions?
Email: PRCtrials.info@gmail.com
This journal club is supported by PRC+.
PRC+ has education modules and resources available for healthcare professionals:
https://www.prc-trials-plus.com/education