It was on July 4 when Kayla Allen and Lori Cole visited Wild West Wellness, a marijuana dispensary in the Billings Heights.
“I had gotten so physically ill from it, that I wasn’t able to get out of bed the next day. I had a massive headache. I was puking a lot,” says Allen.
Allen and Cole both work in the marijuana industry, and have used cannabis for several years. Allen says the only other time she has experienced anything similar, was after consuming synthetic cannabis.
“Being a user, a pretty steady user, for the last six, seven years, I’ve never really had an issues with this, besides smoking Delta-8, specifically,” Allen said.
“I never expected it to not be real. Because, I didn’t think that would happen here, with all the laws and stuff,” Cole said.
That’s exactly what happened. Since February, the Cannabis Control Division has been periodically testing products from Wild West Wellness, and determined the dispensary was selling synthetic products marketed as the real thing.
“HHC (Hexahydrocannabinol) is a cannabinoid that is only made synthetically. It does not happen naturally, or occur naturally, in marijuana,” says Kristan Barbour, the Administrator with Montana’s Cannabis Control Division.
Barbour says investigators found that at least four products sold at Wild West Wellness contained HHC and high levels of Delta-8. Although Delta-8 is naturally occurring, Barbour says that when levels are extremely high, it is likely unnatural.
H/T: www.ktvq.com
