The Colorado Attorney General's Office has filed suit against a Greeley hemp company and its owner for allegedly selling cannabis products with THC content up to 35 times higher than the legal limit. But the defendant says the AG's office is blowing smoke., not only sold high-THC edibles, flower and concentrates marketed as hemp and CBD products, but also forged lab analysis documents and failed to ensure that minors weren't purchasing its products online.
Save for a 0.3 THC limit, hemp and marijuana are the same plant, but hemp's federal legalization in 2018 sparked a nationwide market for hemp-derived products with THC that have similar effects to marijuana products sold at licensed dispensaries. These modified and synthetic forms of THC have been, while even bolder entrepreneurs have opened retail outlets selling products they claim to be hemp but are packed with THC.to focus on the hemp products.
"Though the company claimed their products were industrial hemp, even going so far as to claim they were '100% compliant' with federal law, analysis of samples that investigators purchased from the company revealed THC content far higher than legal limits," according to the AG's office., Eoff says allegations of CBDDY containing 35 times the legal limit of THC are"misleading," since Delta-8 THC and Delta-9 THC, while similar, are not the same.
CBDDY is also being sued by the AG for misleading health claims about its products and not requiring proof of age to purchase products"until on or around January 2024," according to the filing.
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