CANNABIS CULTURE – Health Canada’s Pesticide Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has added chloropicrin to the list of pesticides permitted to be used in outdoor cannabis farms. As a soil fumigant, it is cheaper and more effective than currently approved overground pesticides, but is it also more dangerous than Health Canada is leading us to believe? Previously stockpiled by the US military, chloropicrin was used as a chemical weapon with effects similar to tear gas. Minimal…
