A spate of new class-action lawsuits threaten the CBD industry. Will they force Washington to act?
WASHINGTON — Since the Food and Drug Administration can’t figure out whether supplements that contain cannabidiol, the marijuana-adjacent oil known as CBD, are legal, can a customer who thought they were buying a legal product demand their money back?
A group of remorseful CBD users is suing to test that theory, and it’s going after the companies that put CBD on the map.
In two major lawsuits recently filed against Charlotte’s Web and CV Sciences, two of the largest CBD manufacturers in the country, consumers allege that the companies engaged in “false, fraudulent, unfair, deceptive, and misleading” marketing of their CBD products by claiming they were run-of-the-mill dietary supplements, like vitamin D or iron. Similar lawsuits have also been filed against at least two other smaller CBD makers, Infinite CBD and Green Roads. In all of the
