The owner of a Mississippi medical marijuana testing lab that remains shut down by the Mississippi State Department of Health has hired attorneys, filed a protective order and filed an appeal.
Rapid Analytics owner Mamie Henry said her company filed an appeal on Jan. 5 with MSDH regarding its decision to shutter the Natchez cannabis testing laboratory.
“We are waiting to get a hearing date,” she said.
MSDH has reportedly released products the laboratory had previously tested and is now approving the products for sale.
Henry said her company has filed for a protective order here in Adams County to protect the samples of the products it has tested.
The MSDH questioned where products tested by the company were properly tested for pesticides.
“We have the samples in our vault. Initially, we were open to the department of health having our samples and testing those,” Henry said. “When they originally told us we were dealing with a public health issue, we were willing to provide them. We no longer have faith in this investigation, therefore we have had to protect our samples.”