Buying weed in Delaware today is as easy as walking into your local gas station to buy a soda. However, these products are potentially dangerous and certainly illegal as the state's adult-use program is not yet operational.
Our Delaware and the National Clinical Director Consortium conducted a "Secret Shopper" program ahead of the back-to-school rush at two dozen stores around Dover, Smyrna, and Wilmington. The team found countless cannabis products being pulled right out of jars and placed into bags without labels or repackaged right in front of our shoppers. Most locations are openly selling weed on their checkout counters and only two locations asked for an ID, and one even offered other drugs.
Our Delaware has the test results for 30 products ranging from flowers to edibles to vapes and found many of the labeled products were not what they claimed to be. Over 80% of the product samples are weed, and thus, are not farm bill compliant.
Many products contain harmful contaminants, inaccurate dosing, and unknown synthetic cannabinoids, with 23% of the samples including harmful contaminants and 63.3% containing synthetic converted cannabinoids. Only 19 products have labels, with 100% of them having label claim issues ranging from inaccurate dosing or potency, not listing the actual cannabinoids contained in the product, or inaccurately claiming the product was under 0.3% THC. Many of the products lack warning statements of any kind.
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