Kansas Law Enforcement Raid Shops Selling THC Products 

Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) raids at 18 retailers in the state last week led to the seizure of more than 340 pounds of flower, 43,800 pre-rolls, 35,600 vapes, 84,480 THC and psilocybin edibles, and $35,430 in cash, the Kansas Reflector reports.  

The crackdown netted two arrests of individuals attempting to move the products while trying to evade law enforcement and the seizure of a truck that was transporting THC products removed from the shelves of shops targeted in the law enforcement action. 

During a press conference announcing the raids last Wednesday, KBI Director Tony Mattivi called the shops’ violations of the state’s Controlled Substances Act “brazen.” According to a Reflector report, Mattivi described the targeted shops as “nothing but weed dealers in strip malls.”   

“Since the Farm Bill passed, there’s been a growing acceptance of some of these products, whether they’re CBD or THC. Over time, these shops, I think, have pushed the envelope and pushed the envelope and pushed the envelope.” — Mattivi via the Reflector

Cannabis in any form – including products derived from hemp – remains illegal in Kansas. Last week’s raids targeted shops in Abilene, Concordia, Great Bend, Independence, McPherson, Pratt, Salina, Sedan, Topeka, Ulysses, and Wichita.

During the press conference, state Attorney General Kris Kobach said that “In recent years, enforcement of [Kansas] laws against marijuana and THC in Kansas have been intermittently or, in some jurisdictions, not enforced at all.”

“And so, this is an announcement that that period of lax enforcement is ending,” Kobach said, “and the KBI has taken the lead in identifying places that have become particularly brazen in their selling of marijuana products.”