Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Wednesday that Loma-based Foxhole Farms will pay fines and be permanently barred from the state's cannabis industry as the result of a settlement.
Weiser filed a lawsuit against Foxhole Farms and owner Dane Snover in November 2024 for marketing cannabis products as federally legal hemp. Per Weiser, the business sold products with Delta-9 THC levels far above what the law allows while the products' packaging labeled those levels as being at the legal level. This mislabeling, Weiser said, likely led consumers to believe they were purchasing hemp rather than marijuana. Weiser's lawsuit also alleged that Foxhole Farms failed to verify customers' ages on its website, creating the risk that minors could purchase their products.
Of the 23 products tested during the state's investigation, 21 were misrepresented on Foxhole Farms' website. Despite some products containing higher Delta-9 THC levels than products sold in adult-use dispensaries, none of the company's packaging was childproof, child-resistant, or explicitly stated that the products contained THC.
Investigators also found that Foxhole Farms offered age-restricted cannabis smoking devices to underage consumers. Beyond illegal levels of THC, other products contained potentially dangerous levels of chemicals, such as solvent benzene, which is not allowed for use in cannabis extraction and can be toxic when ingested or inhaled. The investigation also revealed that some if the products they sold, such as vape cartridges, contained banned pesticides.
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