Weed Vape Importer Sees Customs Challenge Go Up In Smoke

CannaKorp Inc.'s challenge to a customs ruling blocking its imports of a cannabis vaporizer system must be thrown out, the Court of International Trade ruled July 11 (CannaKorp, Inc. v. United States, Ct. Int’l Trade, 17-00092, 7/11/17).

The company can’t bring its case until it tries to import the merchandise and is blocked.

The Boston-based CannaKorp in 2016 requested a pre-importation ruling from Customs and Border Protection allowing it to import the CannaCloud, a “single-use, pod-based cannabis vaporizer system.” But the agency ruled that the CannaCloud, as drug paraphernalia, could not be legally imported under the Controlled Substances ...