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How much pot in that brownie? Chocolate can throw off tests
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The latest research on chocolate is one example of chemistry's growing role in the marijuana industry.

is really in that pot brownie? Chocolate can throw off potency tests so labels aren't always accurate, and now scientists are trying to figure out why.pot comes in cookies, mints, gummies, protein bars — even pretzels

Chemists working for marijuana companies and testing labs are developing those standards and some are legally protecting their ideas. "The chocolate itself is affecting our ability to measure the cannabinoids within it," said David Dawson, chemist and lead researcher at CW Analytical Laboratories in Oakland, California, which tests marijuana.

Some in the marijuana industry hold"a mythical belief in the goddess of cannabis," Roggen said, but chemists view marijuana more objectively. For its part, the industry is learning to accept the"new guard of scientists with a different approach to the plant," he said.

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