DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is suing a Colorado cannabis business and its owner, accusing them of selling marijuana products marketed as federally legal hemp products that contained THC up to 35 times higher than what is legal.
This is the first time since the state legislature granted the Colorado Attorney General’s Office the authority to enforce industrial hemp laws that such a lawsuit has been filed.
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According to the lawsuit, Gee Distributors, LLC, and its owner, Christopher Eoff, were investigated for a subsidiary known as CBDDY, which was established in 2019 and based in Fort Collins. The business was dissolved in May 2023, according to the attorney general’s complaint .
The Weld County-based business was selling products it purported to be industrial hemp. But the Colorado Attorney General’s Office alleges that instead, CBDDY was operating mostly online and reportedly sold smokeable cannabis flower, high-THC concentrates and edible marijuana products.
The company allegedly marketed that their products were “100% compliant” with federal law, but samples from the company reportedly showed THC content far higher than the legal federal limit. Additionally, the products also had imagery specifically designed to appeal to children, according to the Attorney General’s Office, with forms and flavors that were in the same vein.
“Colorado’s legal cannabis regulations are designed to protect consumers, ensure the highest safety and quality standards, and keep cannabis out of the hands of kids,” said Weiser in a release. “In this case, the defendant recklessly sold products that were, in some cases, more potent even than what is sold in state-licensed dispensaries with little regard for requirements like lab testing and age verification.”
Hemp-derived Delta 9 THC products are federally required to have 0.3% THC by dry weight or less, but Colorado also prohibits the sale of hemp that’s been chemically modified to become products that get the user high. According to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, the 2018 policy change “spurred an increase in industrial hemp companies attempting to evade state regulations and taxes that would apply to recreational marijuana.”
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Colorado hemp business sued by state for products with reportedly high THC content
