Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued cease and desist letters on Wednesday to 82 retail locations and franchised stores in Lincoln, Nebraska, for selling illegal or unlawful THC-containing products.
The letters said many of the THC-containing products the stores are selling misrepresent the concentrations and types of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, contained within those products, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
“Our office’s testing showed that nearly every one of these products were mislabeled,” Hilgers said. “This industry has shown itself to be completely irresponsible. It operates without regard to the health or safety of Nebraskans by selling these poisonous and mislabeled products into the Capital City.”
As of June 18, the attorney general’s office has sent cease and desist letters to 204 stores alleging violations of the Consumer Protection Act (Unfairness), Consumer Protection Act (Deception), Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and Nebraska Pure Food Act.
In 2025, the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office and Nebraska attorney general’s office investigators made purchases of products from stores owned by 39 different companies.
Each store investigated had at least one product that was marketed as hemp, but which actually had a delta-9 concentration over the legal limit, making it marijuana. The 2018 Farm Bill made hemp legal to sell, and defines it as cannabis-derived material with a 0.3% level of THC or below.
Over 90% of products had labels that incorrectly identified the contents, the office of the state’s top legal officer said in a statement.
Hilger’s office said many of the stores have tobacco licenses and also sell synthetically produced THC-containing products, which may put their tobacco licenses at risk.
The attorney general’s office said each store must return a signed document indicating their assurance of voluntary compliance or face litigation.
CSP reached out to the state’s attorney general’s office for comment on what retailers are on the list but did not receive a reply by press time.
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