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Colorado regulators allowed hemp-derived THC into market, lawsuit says

Colorado’s regulated marijuana market is riddled with unsafe and illegal hemp-derived THC, a flow that regulators are unable or unwilling to stop, a state-licensed cannabis company alleges in a lawsuit.

In a March 10 complaint filed in state court in Denver, cultivator and manufacturer Mammoth Farms accused the Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) of allowing Colorado’s distillate market to be “illegally taken over by synthetic THC from outside” the state.

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These “failures” to crack down on criminal activity and ensure consumer safety have put the state’s $1.4 billion industry in “crisis,” according to Mammoth’s suit, first reported by Law360.

The MED declined to comment on the lawsuit, according to the Denver Post.

Suit alleges ‘connections with drug cartels’

The suit by Mammoth, headquartered in the

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