Since January, vape shops all across northwest Georgia have received threatening letters from law enforcement. In Catoosa County, the letter came from Sheriff Gary Sisk, while stores in the three counties surrounding Catoosa received letters from the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force (LMJCDTF), which has jurisdiction in all four counties. The letters from the task force were addressed to "all individuals, retailers, distributors, and wholesalers," who were advised that anyone caught "in possession and/or selling/distributing" any products containing "any form of THC that is over 0.3%…will be subject to arrest, prosecution and possible asset seizure."
The letter from Sisk was even more pointed: Shops were advised that "a representative of the Catoosa County Sheriff's Office" had "purchased items from your store and had them tested." The items were found to "contain a significate [sic] level of Delta 9." Sisk warned that the sheriff's office would "move forward with prosecutions and seizures if these illegal items are not removed from Georgia" by April 30.
