Not unless they were scrubbing in and wearing full surgical garb every time they entered their garden. If you are growing with organic living soil, you would almost definitely fail the current LP testing standards with flying colors. Hopefully you didn't have a cold during those 8 weeks of flower and sneeze on a bud......
I think we can all agree that it is much easier to produce high quality medicine when growing in smaller batches. QA is also much easier to deal with when producing small manageable batches. That said, claiming that every basement grower can easily pass the same QA specs that the current LP's have to could not be farther from the truth. The medicine that LP's grow is being held to ridiculously strict standards, and you need to ensure a sterile environment to meet the criteria.
Nonsense.
What I wouldn't have in my tent is one media group after the other, dressed up like clean room clowns, only to shove their filthy fucking noses into my flowers, let alone in the middle of the off period.
Then you have them in the trimming room with big fat bellies and bare sleeves all over the buds, while the other more subservient ones are more stringent per the regulations and common sense that privilege seems to lack. A clean room standard doesn't mean applicable to all but the privileged or some of the time.
This is what we see of them in the 20 seconds of video they elected to use as their best and it's a fucking disgrace. Anyone with just half a clue about growing can look at their operation in that span of time and pick it apart completely as amateur hour.
Despite that the argument isn't "every basement grower can" straw man. It's that "any basement grower could". The discerning difference is whether or not the tools required of them doing so are kept from them or not.
Otherwise it's not my prerogative whether or not my neighbor has a batch that goes sour, and if it weren't prohibited in the first place he could have it tested himself affordably too, which would at least quantify the risk associated with it. Prohibition doesn't work and it's apparently more testing that makes us safe so.. Now it's such a mystery that they're not even putting a face on the numbers that the LP's are failing at, and I mean rate of failed tests, and everything. Frankly, we're all owed all of that information, and it should be available in a public database in an easy to track format, because it's not a free market.
The home grower shouldn't' be held to the same standard as LP's. If the standard that the LP's are being held to is unreasonable, then they can lobby for that as they have whined about everything else. But apparently they felt it of greater urgency to get that nasty marketing thing out of the way first. They also authored their own procedures. So it's not even possible to argue that mean ol' health canada is being unfair to them, when they're not even abiding by a bare minimal level of common sense in practice.
Where they actually are in practice is on the far end of stupidity, but you're diminishing that in saying "you better not sneeze as if the situations are comparable". Even the notion that utilizing living organics would fail the imposed standard is absurd. As if the beneficial micro fauna would somehow transmigrate into the bud and turn bad. Everyone but health canada have evolved to understand that sterility and growing are oxymorons. If they in fact and in practice imposed such unreasonable tolerances on them, then they'd have a case to make them change it, like they do for pesticides in tea, where they even outright ignore it.
But the question of whether or not your typical "basement grower" could be fairly subjected to those same levels of expectation is absurd in itself. Firstly "basement" seems to take that "back yard" denigration, which is worth objecting to since it isn't' at all correlated to quality or especially a lack of it, in a perfect parallel to how LP's have yet to be associated with quality either, and are unlikely to be.
But it's interesting that they have QA criteria at odds with one another. Whole plant cannabis was a term used in the wording of the regulations previously, if I'm not mistaken. That's because it's obvious that they'd eventually attempt to chip away access through narrowing definitions and refocusing attention etc. The MMPR fails in delivering on the "whole plant cannabis" front because whole plant cannabis has to include the medicative and synergistic terpenes, for it to really even quality as medicine in the first place, which they're having to evacuate in order to meet "QA" criteria which doesn't, and shouldn't, apply to a home grower, and for whom the QA criteria would be radically different, including the medicative terpenes. It's hard to argue that what the LP's produce, evacuated of terpenes via irradiation, is anything but recreational weed.