InvestigationHemp
Inside Connecticut’s Tangled THC Drink Web: Out-of-State Makers, Missing Lab Reports and a $1 Fee Nobody Can Follow
We bought three THC seltzers at Connecticut stores this month and followed every QR code. None led to a lab report for the can in hand. Behind the shelf is a state market built on a separate legal category, a dollar-per-can fee that funds enforcement, a supply chain that runs through other states, and a federal deadline that puts every one of these drinks outside federal hemp law on December 11.