Wow.

There was a stunning series of bombshell comments from Danny Carson (@DannyMassachusetts), an advocate for worker safety in the adult and medical use market in Massachusetts, at today’s CCC public listening session related to lab fraud.

Danny revealed more exclusive details about his ongoing investigative reporting related to products, and a growing environment, at The Heirloom Collective that is presenting, what Danny explains, is an active threat to workers of the company and consumers (the very situation that created conditions which, in January of 2022, led to the tragic death of Danny’s friend Lorna McMurrey at MSO Trulieve’s now-shuttered Holyoke facility).

Earlier in the meeting, Commissioner Kimberly Roy --known as a hero throughout the state for being the first person to bring up the issue of lab fraud, years ago-- also announced that she is pushing for the de-anonymized release of all testing lab data in the state (data that will show, according to my sources, at least 3-4 labs with a failure rate for total year and mold that is either at, around, or below 4% (some labs have fail rates for yeast and mold that is close to zero).

That said, for now, because the CCC has only released potency data, I am taking this opportunity to release multiple years of total yeast and mold results for the Commonwealth (which have been released to multiple people but, for some reason, were not put on the CCC website) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10HaUR9rTfprnRtuJEOUQFjcJyiuDkFpG?usp=sharing

Acting Chair Bruce Stebbins also doubled down, before the meeting started, and told the public and stakeholders that the CCC’s “secret shopper program” (to catch lab fraud) does exist, despite reporting on this feed (and confirmed by CCC staff, also per this feed) that such a program does not actually exist. Read that reporting here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/follow-up-ccc-of-115104903

However, during a flurry of conversations Thursday afternoon, I can now confirm, again, that no CCC teams exist to conduct such purchases, of any kind. It is possible that “a small number” of purchases have been made for the purposes of confirmatory re-testing, but, per my sources, there is no ongoing program and no organized structure to administer such off-the-shelf testing.

Danny, you’re doing such good work. I never thought there would, ever, be an authentic person or group doing policy work in this state. You are literally the only thing that gives me hope. Never give in and never sell out. Towel’s got your back.


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