Colorado hemp business sued by state for products with reportedly high THC content [Video]

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 …