Cannabis testing labs in California face a plethora of regulations. Those go down to the minutiae of requiring that every single line of a shipping manifest be signed off by a compliance officer, says Scott Willard, CEO of Coverton Labs, which is in the process of opening a lab in Montereyâs Ryan Ranch. The company must keep the record of that transaction forever. âWe have to hire people just to keep paperwork in order,â Willard says. The hiring process is also heavily regulated, he adds: âHonestly, the FBI doesnât have to screen people as much as we have to.â