[Canniseur: Bad players exist. Kushy Punch products will be a thing of the past as it seems certain their license will be rescinded. A bad business gamble would be one thing. But illegal products were made of impure cannabis that didn’t pass inspection for their legal product production. This put real lives in danger by selling contaminated products. It’s purely capitalist greed. This is exactly what we do not want in the marketplace.]
California state officials confiscated these Kushy Punch vape cartridges in their investigation of the company’s unlicensed Canoga Park facility. (Courtesy of CA Dept. of Consumer Affairs)
California has a troubling new wrinkle in the vaping story rocking the nation.
Prompted by a tip, investigators at the California Department of Consumer Affairs served a search warrant on Thursday, Oct. 3, at a light industrial space north of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley city of Canoga Park.
There they found an illegal cannabis product manufacturing operation apparently operated by Kushy Punch, a legal state-licensed company. Authorities seized a number of finished products, including gummies in Kushy Punch packaging and disposable vaporizers in Kushy Vape packaging.
In photos obtained by Leafly, the facility appeared to be performing petro-solvent extractions, where a technician concentrates the active ingredient in cannabis, THC. Petro-solvent extraction is legal with a permit in California. The extraction method can sometimes have the effect of concentrating pesticides along with the THC.
California officials documented slabs of raw THC oil fresh from the extractor. (Courtesy of CA Dept. of Consumer Affairs)
Edibles and vape cartridges seized
The facility appeared to be in the business of putting those extracts into professional-looking THC foods as well as disposable vape pen cartridges. Tall file cabinets held thousands of boxes of Kushy Vapes pens and Kushy Punch edibles packaged and ready for sale and consumption.
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