Steep Hill Lab, founded in 2008, is an independently owned and operated medical cannabis screening facility located in Oakland, California. Steep Hill Lab's mission is to assure the quality of medical cannabis through scientific analysis while actively legitimizing the cannabis industry by implementing independent standards for quality control. Steep Hill is California's premier cannabis testing facility. Steep Hill uses validated laboratory methodology to serve collective dispensaries and growers throughout the entire state of California, and patients with valid California State Medical marijuana recommendations. Quality control is strictly maintained in the lab, which adheres to guidelines used by clinical and reference laboratories throughout the United States.