The governor's office refused to answer SFR's inquiry about temporarily using the lab and instead referred questions to the health department. There, spokesman Kenny Vigil said Medical Cannabis Program Manager Ken Groggel was unavailable for an interview. Vigil instead emailed SFR a statement acknowledging that there's no longer a state-approved lab to perform testing for medical cannabis. He asserts that "there is currently no lapse in testing" because the state does not mandate "how or where testing should occur."