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Widespread product recall upends Missouri’s cannabis industry

A widespread recall targeting tens of thousands of infused cannabis products in Missouri has led to millions of dollars in lost sales and inventory for retailers and manufacturers, according to industry sources and court documents obtained by MJBizDaily.

At the same time, scores of operators caught up in the fallout have few options to recoup those losses.

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Some retailers, such as Kansas City-based multistate operator Greenlight, have locked up thousands of vape pens and other products in vaults after Missouri regulators imposed an “administrative hold” in August on the merchandise, then implemented a full-fledged recall.

Firsthand accounts from manufacturers such as Kansas City-based Clovr – the state’s largest – point to multimillion-dollar losses after the Division for Cannabis Regulation (DCR) recalled roughly 62,000 infused marijuana products with distillate manufactured and sold by Delta Extraction, a processor based in Robertsville.

On Aug. 2, regulators suspended Delta Extraction’s

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