A CBD company in Oregon is suing a Massachusetts hemp refinery over a shipment of hemp extract that was seized for containing too much THC, leading to criminal charges.
Key Compounds filed suit against Phasex Corp. in federal court for negligence and breach of contract.
The shipment was seized by local law enforcement in Albany, Oregon, in January 2019.
As a result of the seizure and criminal investigation that followed, Key Compounds said it was forced to vacate its Oregon premises, cease operations, lay off its employees and liquidate its assets and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend against a felony indictment.
In the complaint, Key Compounds said Phasex agreed on Jan. 18, 2019, to process the company’s industrial hemp oil and return the extract with “nondetectable levels” of THC.
Phasex President Hans Schonemann was said to have assured Key Compounds CEO Alexander Reyter that the CO2 purification process Phasex used would mitigate THC from industrial hemp oil and reduce it to nondetectable levels.
Key Compounds said that Schonemann allowed the purification process to run for too long. The final sample collected during the extraction process, termed F8, contained a THC concentration that exceeded the 0.3% national limit.
“Despite having the test results … Schonemann and Phasex failed to review this information prior to shipping F8 to Key Compounds,” the complaint said.
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THC sure gives the guvment plenty of jobs. You can buy heroin on the streets and cities give you free needles to shoot up, but if you have a little too much THC, that will get you a felony! Yep, it all makes sense to me.
As if the CBD company didn’t know there was THC in their products.
When it’s contracted that remediation of thc during extraction is to be performed and isn’t, yes, the cbd company thought there would not be any thc in their oil to those levels, as they were expecting near zero.
Trust nobody, verify everything.