The state rolled back its recall of nearly 15,000 cannabis products last week and allowed them to return to the dispensary shelves, after requiring Missouri companies to keep them in storage since early August. The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation said in an Oct. 20 notice that after a review of product-tracking records, regulators can verify that “some of the marijuana products on recall contain THC solely sourced from marijuana grown in the Missouri regulated market.”
The future of the other 45,000 products recalled on Aug. 14 — and those of dozens of marijuana businesses facing a steep financial loss if the products must be destroyed — is still pending. The Robertsonville-based marijuana manufacturer Delta Extraction has asked the Administrative Hearing Commission to rescind the company’s license suspension and fully rollback the recall.
A trial is scheduled for the beginning of December, if the division and company can’t work out an agreement before then. The key question facing the division and commission is how the recalled products were created — and whether that process poses a risk to public health.
If Delta Extraction can present evidence showing the products were created safely, then there’s a possibility the state won’t order 45,000 products to be destroyed. The company could still likely face a hefty fine, and even license revocation, for importing a hemp product into the state and adding it to Missouri-grown marijuana products.
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