CannaScopeLiteV12Beta

See what Connecticut's cannabis labs
actually reported.

Pick any period from 30 days to a year. Yeast & mold, aerobic bacteria and heavy metals, ranked by how close each reading came to the limit in force on its own test date, with a link to the laboratory's own PDF on every row, so you never have to take this site's word for anything.

1 What do you want to check?

2 Which period?

How much time
Ending on

Jump to a specific month or date

Narrow It Down producer and category

3 Your results

Beta: this tool can be wrong. Every number here is read off a PDF by software, and software misreads documents. Always open the COA and check it yourself before relying on anything on this page. Not a finding of wrongdoing: these are lab results as filed with the state, a high reading is not an allegation. ↓ buttons download a file from the state's own site.

Add to Your Home Screen

It then opens full screen with its own icon, straight onto the last 30 days. It still needs a connection, this is a shortcut to the live site, not an offline copy, so the registry is current every time you open it.

Nothing is stored on your device beyond the icon and your own preferences, such as the theme you picked.

How to Use CannaScope Lite V12

Connecticut publishes every cannabis product registered for sale, together with a link to the laboratory certificate of analysis, the COA, behind it. Those COAs are PDFs, one per product, tens of thousands of them. This site reads the numbers out of them so you can sort and compare in seconds, then hands you straight back to the original document.

The seven buttons

Yeast & Mold
Ranks every product in the period you have loaded by its total yeast and mold count, highest first, in colony-forming units per gram (CFU/g). This is the panel most people come looking for.
Aerobic Bacteria
The same ranking for total aerobic bacteria, against Connecticut's 100,000 CFU/g rule.
Heavy Metals
Ranks by each product's single highest metal reading, arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury or chromium, all converted to one unit (µg/kg) so they can share a list. The chips on each row show the other metals from that same COA.
Pathogens & Limits
Every result this site covers where a measurement passed the limit printed on its own certificate. It ignores the period above, because findings this rare cannot be ranked inside a 30-day window. A pathogen is only listed here when it has been confirmed by re-reading the laboratory's own PDF, never on the strength of a status word alone.
Duplicate COAs
Finds one lab report PDF that several different registered products all point at, and groups them so you can open the report and see what it actually covers.
Re-Test / Multiple COA
Products whose certificate holds more than one laboratory sample, an initial test and a later re-test printed in the same PDF. Every sample is listed with its date and the verdict the laboratory printed for it, oldest first, so a result is never read without the result that superseded it.
All Products
Everything added to the state registry in that period, with no laboratory filter at all.

Choosing the period

Pick how much time, 30 days, 90 days, 6 months or a full year, then the date it ends on. The arrows step the whole period backwards and forwards, and the range is always spelled out underneath, so you are never guessing what you are looking at.

A full year is about 800 KB, which is a second or two on a phone. It is also what makes the search box most useful, since search only ever looks at the period you have loaded.

Under Jump to a specific month or date you can go straight to any month this site covers, return to today, or jump to the newest period whose COAs have been read.

Coverage starts at January 2021. Connecticut's registry does run further back, but the older records are mostly scanned certificates whose numbers cannot be read reliably, so ranking them would mean ranking gaps. The period controls stop at the start of 2021 for that reason, not because nothing was registered earlier.

Reading a result

  1. The big number is the measurement and its unit, followed by the limit it is being judged against.
  2. The colored pill turns that into a percentage of the limit, so you can scan a list without doing arithmetic.
  3. The product name and the ↓ COA (PDF) button both fetch the same lab report.
  4. ↓ Photo and ↓ Label fetch the product photograph and the packaging label the producer filed with the state. They are links rather than pictures on the page because the state serves the originals, which average half a megabyte and sometimes exceed two, a page of them would cost tens of megabytes on a phone.
  5. Everything with a ↓ downloads a file. The state's site sends these documents as attachments instead of displaying them, so each arrives in your downloads folder named PublicDocument.pdf or PublicDocument.jpg. That is how elicense.ct.gov behaves and no website linking to it can change that. Nothing downloads unless you tap one of those buttons.
  6. The small picture at the left of a row shows the product type: flower, pre-roll, vape, edible, concentrate, tincture, capsule or topical. If the state ever files a dosage form that matches none of those, the row simply shows no badge rather than a wrong one.
  7. The green line is who made it and the date it was registered.
  8. The small gray line is the product type, the testing laboratory, and the state registration number (the MMBR number) if you want to look it up yourself.
  9. The chips underneath show other panels from the same COA, aerobic bacteria, mycotoxins, metals. A red chip is a reading above its stated limit.

What the colors mean

Each pill compares the reading to the limit that applied on that product's test date, not today's limit. Connecticut's yeast and mold standard has been 10,000 CFU/g, then 1,000,000 for one laboratory during a two-year window, then 100,000 since mid-2022, so an older result is judged by the rule it was actually tested under.

A reading in the top band also carries a small hazard picture beside it. It appears only at 75% of the limit and above, and it is a prompt to open the COA, not a safety warning: a result at 90% of its limit still passed the limit.

Four things that will mislead you if you skip them

“Below Detection” is not a number
A COA printing <100 means the result was under the instrument's floor, not that it was 100. Those rows are labeled and kept out of the rankings, because otherwise a product that was never quantified would outrank one that genuinely measured low. Tick the box under Narrow It Down to see them anyway.
Not being on the list is not a clean result
A product can be missing from a ranking for two very different reasons, and the summary distinguishes them. Some COAs genuinely carry no panel for what is being ranked. Others carry it, but the automated reader could not pull the number off that laboratory's page layout, for one laboratory this currently affects several hundred products a year whose certificates plainly show the test. Neither means a product went untested. Open the COA and read the laboratory's own document.
A duplicate COA is not an accusation
One laboratory report covering several products is a documented report layout, commonly used when a producer tests a batch that becomes several SKUs. It is surfaced so a person can look, not because it is evidence of anything.
One certificate can hold more than one test
Some COAs run to a dozen pages and contain two different samples: a first test and a later re-test of the same product, with different results. Reading only the first one can tell you the opposite of what the document as a whole says. Where this site has found a certificate like that it lists every sample under Re-Test / Multiple COA, and the most recent sample is the one the product shipped on.

Why some periods have no numbers

The product registry is read live from the state and is current to within a day or two. The laboratory panels are read out of the COA PDFs in advance, which lags behind. So the newest few weeks usually list every product with a working COA link but no ranked numbers yet. The site says so when that happens and offers to move you to the newest period that does have them. The footer always states the exact coverage date.

Keeping it on your phone

Added to your home screen it behaves like an app: its own icon, no browser address bar, and it opens straight on the last 30 days.

iPhone and iPad
Open the site in Safari (this does not work from Chrome on iOS). Tap the Share button: the square with the arrow, scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
Android
Open the site in Chrome, tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen or Install app, and confirm.
Desktop
In Chrome or Edge, an install icon appears at the right-hand end of the address bar; it then opens in its own window. Safari on a Mac uses File → Add to Dock.

It still needs a connection, this is a shortcut to the live site, not an offline copy, so the registry stays current every time you open it. Nothing is stored on your phone beyond the icon and your own preferences, such as the theme you picked.

Getting more out of it

Independent, non-commercial, and not affiliated with the State of Connecticut, any laboratory, or any producer. Nothing here is legal, medical or regulatory advice.