A man is permanently barred from operating any cannabis business in Colorado after settling a lawsuit that accused him of illegally selling cannabis products marketed as federally legal industrial hemp and falsifying state testing lab results.
Christopher Landon Eoff owned Gee Distributors, LLC, which was located in Greeley and operated mostly online under the name CBDDY while in Colorado. The June 2024 lawsuit filed by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser alleged that Eoff also failed to verify the age of customers and marketed products in ways designed to appeal to children.
While CBDDY claimed their products were “100% compliant” with federal law, some of the company’s products contained as much as 10.5% THC — 35 times the amount of 0.3% allowed under federal law, according to the lawsuit.
Eoff was also ordered to pay $820,000 as part of the settlement, though he filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January, which suspends the fine unless he breaks any provisions of the settlement or it is learned he falsified his financial information, the settlement states.
“Colorado’s cannabis regulations set a high standard for protecting consumers and keeping THC out of the hands of kids, and I sued the defendant in this case after he recklessly violated the law,” Weiser said in the release. “I will continue to hold accountable those who evade Colorado’s cannabis laws.”
In 2018, Congress legalized the limited manufacture and sale of consumable industrial hemp, defined as hemp containing no more than 0.3% of the psychoactive chemical delta-9 THC. The policy change spurred an increase in industrial hemp companies attempting to evade state regulations and taxes that apply to recreational marijuana, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office said in a June 2024 news release.
This case was the first enforcement action under Senate Bill 22-205, which “prohibits the chemical modification, conversion or synthetic derivation of intoxicating tetrahydrocannabinol isomers that originate from industrial hemp or may be synthetically derived.”
Consumers who believe cannabis companies, or any businesses, are engaging in deceptive practices are encouraged to file a complaint with the attorney general’s office at StopFraudColorado.gov.
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