State regulators issued two cannabis recall notices last week involving 135,000 marijuana products — more than double Missouri's first massive cannabis product recall exactly one year ago. "I've never seen recalls of this magnitude in any other state," said Nick Rinella, CEO of Hippos Cannabis. "This is kind of unprecedented."
Since the announcement, Rinella and facility owners around the state have scrambled to quarantine thousands of vapes, edibles and pre-rolled joints in their secure vaults. Now they'll wait until state regulators tell them what to do with those products.
Problem is, some of them are still holding products from last year's recall, which centered around Robertsville-based manufacturer Delta Extraction, because that recall is still being challenged. However, others opted to work with the state to destroy those products.
That's where "the stress comes from," said Mark Hendren, president of Flora Farms cannabis company. If a dispensary or facility has a small vault, he said, "and you have product that you have to quarantine, it makes it difficult space wise for you to bring in other inventory to keep the business moving."
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