'Stoneos' cannabis cookies look too much like Oreos, says FTC

Six companies that marque snacks with the progressive constituent of cannabis person been sent cease and desist letters due to the fact that the packaging looks excessively overmuch similar foods that kids love, including "Stoneos" that mimic Oreo cookies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said connected Wednesday.

The letters were sent by the FTC and Food and Drug Administration over interest that children whitethorn privation to effort them, the FTC said, including products that could easy beryllium mistaken for Doritos tortilla chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, and Nerds and different candies.

The products included "Double Stuf Stoneo" marked arsenic made by "Dabisco," and "Jolly Rancher Gummies Sours" arsenic good arsenic a "Cheetos Crunchy XXTRA Flamin' Hot." All are marked arsenic containing THC — the constituent successful marijuana that produces a precocious — successful a little country of the package.

The missive said the FDA received much than 125 reports of children oregon adults who experienced adverse effects to a THC consumable from Jan. 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. "Ten of the reports specifically notation the edible merchandise to beryllium a copycat of fashionable foods," the missive said.

"You indispensable instantly cease selling edible Delta-8 THC products that imitate accepted foods utilizing advertizing oregon packaging that is apt to beryllium appealing to young children," the missive said.

The letters were sent to Delta Munchies LLC, Exclusive Hemp Farms; North Carolina Hemp Exchange LLC, which makes the Stoneos; Dr. Smoke LLC, Nikte's Wholesale LLC, which makes "Medicated Jolly Rancher Gummies Sour," and The Haunted Vapor Room.

A idiosyncratic who signed an email "Dr. Smoke" said the institution did not marque the products successful question, and that they were pulling them from the store.

The different 5 companies did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.