New Nationwide Marijuana Certification Program Launches

Americans for Safe Access, or ASA, put together a new nationwide program called Patient Focused Certification (PFC), a non-profit, third party group that will certify the quality of medical marijuana being produced and sold for consumer use in the United States.

PFC has just certified their first medical marijuana businesses – two in Arizona and one in New Mexico.

The first dispensary in Arizona to get the PFC is Harvest of Tempe. While the first medical marijuana lab testing facility to get the PFC is AZ Med Testing in Phoenix. The New Mexicann dispensary in Santa Fe was the first New Mexico business to receive the PFC.

Last month, a New York Times columnist wrote about her terrible experience after ingesting a marijuana edible in Colorado. PFC hopes to make instances like these a thing of the past through rigorous testing and proper labeling. Although it’s going to take a long time before they are able to certify each and every dispensary across the country, it is certainly a step in the right direction.