Cannabis Standards
and Publications
Setting the Standard for Quality, Compliance,
and Safety in the Cannabis and Hemp Industry
Standards are critical to addressing key needs in the cannabis industry, including quality control, safety, and compliance. The rigor and process behind the historical ASTM standardization process serves to build public credibility, confidence, and trust while offering the industry a path to growth.
The Need for Standards in the
Cannabis Industry
Standards provide a valuable baseline for everyone that the cannabis industry impacts. From cultivators and consumers to labs and legislators, standardization eliminates confusion by defining what quality, safe, and compliant mean. It also levels the playing field for all industry stakeholders and improves quality, testing, and procedures for cannabis businesses worldwide.
ASTM International Committee D37 on Cannabis pulls together experts from across the cannabis and hemp industry to develop consensus-based standards driven by the deep knowledge and experience of its members. To date, D37 has published over 50 standards and has dozens more currently in development.
“Standardization accelerates consistency and harmonization leading to improved economics, improved and better funded medical research, and improvements in consumer safety on an international level.”
– Cary Black, CEO and Principal Consultant of CK Black Group
Ongoing Standards Development for
a Rapidly Growing Industry
Test Methods
Specifications
Guides
Practices
Classifications
Terminology
Evolving standards are essential to a rapidly growing cannabis industry but can pose challenges for organizations that need to stay current with those updates and changes. Our easy-to-use ASTM Compass® portal provides organization-wide, immediate access to the latest cannabis and hemp standards your team needs.
Keep Pace With Changing Standards
Learn How You Can Stay Current on Evolving Cannabis Standards
The Global Standardization Experts
Emerging industries such as cannabis turn to ASTM International and our 125+ years of experience as a leading international standards developer. Our well-established technical infrastructure and secure processes ensure all standards are developed in a fair, consensus-based manner.
Our dynamic custom collaboration and publishing technologies bring standards to market in months. By consistently seeking out the industry’s needs and addressing them through our consensus-based approach, we’re able to help the cannabis industry flourish.
Standard test methods, practices, specifications, and guides for cannabis and hemp:
- Indoor and outdoor horticulture and agriculture
- Processing and handling
- Security and transportation
- Quality management systems
- Laboratory
- Sustainability
- Devices and appliances
- Personal/household-use cannabis devices and appliances
- Industrial hemp
- Personnel training, assessment and and credentialing
- Diversity, equity and inclusion
- Financial services and insurance
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Covering all areas of the industry – from testing and production to personnel, facility operations, and core business practices.
- Cannabis industry infrastructure
- Cannabis certification requirements
- Lab operations and testing
- Information security
- Facility operations and security
- Product complaints
- THC content
- Business audits
- Hempcrete
- Devices and appliances
- Plants and oils
- Cannabinoid concentrations
- Indoor and outdoor cultivation
- Corrective action/preventive action (CAPA)
- Packaging and storage
- Business audits
- Cannabis vocations
- Risk reductions and safety
- Cleaning procedures
- Cannabis sampling
- Hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP)
- Cannabis recalls
- Quality management
- Cannabis vaporizers
- Cannabis flowers and leaves
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