Regulators in Missouri stripped C&C Manufacturing of its cannabis manufacturer’s license on July 17, following a massive product recall last summer. The revocation comes about five months after the state rescinded the license of Delta Extractraction for a similar recall.
Last year, the state discovered that C&C was illegally importing cannabis products from out of state to use in the production of distillate, which was then used to create products such as vapes or edibles. That discovery led to the state’s largest cannabis recall, pulling over 132,000 products from the shelves.
“The Department enforces its regulations to uphold the Missouri Constitution and ensure safe access to marijuana product at our licensed facilities,” said Department of Cannabis Regulation Director Amy Moore in a released statement. “C&C’s use of unregulated THC to create marijuana products, numerous violations of rule, and destruction of product and records in direct violation of DCR orders demonstrates clear disregard for law at the expense of health and safety and has no place in Missouri’s regulated market.”
DCR suspended the company’s license on Sept. 26 and then issued a notice of pending revocation on Jan. 17. At some point after that, the company allegedly removed or destroyed all of the cannabis products on site along with surveillance video records, according to DCR.
A former owner of C&C Manufacturing did not respond to a request for comment.
State fights imported THC
Missouri first allowed adult-use sales Feb. 3, 2023, with existing medical operators getting the first crack at the market. Since then, the state has authorized 62 active cultivators, 83 manufacturers and 218 retailers, according to the CRB Monitor licensing database. By some estimates, the Show Me State has transformed into the fifth largest adult-use market in the nation.
Demand is high, and the market has reached a point where suppliers feel the need to look outside the state for products to fill that demand.
Missouri regulators first rang the alarm of out-of-state THC when it recalled over 62,000 products from Delta Extraction on Aug. 23, 2023. The company allegedly imported illicit and untracked THCA distillate from Colorado to manufacture THC concentrates and vapes that also used cannabis grown in Missouri.
Essentially, out of state THCA distillate was being used as filler in products that also contained at least a modicum of home-grown cannabis product.
Three weeks prior to the crackdown, the state changed the rules regarding hemp products to require that they be tracked in Metrc, just like regulated cannabis products.
Delta Extraction fought back in court to no avail, while it also started having to contend with lawsuits from its clients after the state cracked down on the altered products.
The state ultimately shut down the company and rescinded its license, and Delta Extraction lost its final appeal of the revocation in February.
After the Delta Extraction recall, state regulators took a closer look at the products in its market. The DCR currently has nine active recalls going back to last August that include almost 200,000 product lots.
Ongoing recalls
- Aug. 6, 2024 — 2,649 products from NGWMO LLC for improper testing practices. The company allegedly tested their product at the bud stage, rather than at harvest.
- Aug. 8, 2024 — 132,382 products from C&C Manufacturing that were not compliantly tracked through Metrc.
- Aug. 30, 2024 — 37,156 products from Blue Sky Health & Wellness that were not compliantly tracked through Metrc.
- Sept. 17, 2024 — 23,353 products that were tested by ClearWater Science because they were allegedly not properly tested.
- Nov. 15 2024 — 3,010 products manufactured by Noah’s Arc Foundation for containing food coloring ingredients that were not listed on the label.
- April 18, 2025 — 110 products from Honey Green that were mislabeled.
- April 18, 2025 — 214 products from Carrollton Manufacturing for resembling non-cannabis products, making them more susceptible to being accidentally consumed.
- April 29, 2025 — 305 products from Nodaway Holdings for resembling non-cannabis products, making them more susceptible to being accidentally consumed.
- July 1, 2025 — 36 products from Bootheel CannaCare Columbia for containing grapefruit mercaptan without listing it on the label.
