Three more CBD shops allegedly selling THC-laden delta-8 products illegally were recently raided, bringing the total number of smoke shops targeted to eight statewide, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.
“This is incredibly dangerous stuff, and it’s totally unregulated. These are all bootleg products, illegal products. We don’t have any real information about how they’re made, what’s in them, whether they’re safe for anyone’s consumption,” said Attorney General William Tong during a news conference Tuesday. “It’s extraordinarily dangerous for these to be sold here in Connecticut, and that’s why we took action against these three shops.”
The three Stamford CBD shops, which Tong identified as Zaza Smoke Shop II, Breeze Smoke Shop and World’s Exotic Smoke Shop, will be charged in civil court for alleged violations of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, Tong said.
“If you live in Stamford, you know where these stores are. They’re not hidden in some back alley somewhere in our city; they’re in major shopping centers and on major thoroughfares,” he said. “”They got big, flashy signs.”
That brings the total number of CBD shops targeted by the state to eight, Tong announcing in February that five shops elsewhere in the state had been charged. Those cases are proceeding, he said.
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