Elevado Drinks Faces False-Ad Suit Over Microdose Marketing

Canned cocktail company Elevado Drinks deceptively advertises a line of sparkling cocktails that contain THC and CBD as “perfectly microdosed” despite containing more than twice as much THC as a typical microdose, a proposed class action complaint alleged.

A typical microdose of THC is usually between 1 and 2.5 milligrams, but Elevado cocktails contain 5 milligrams of both THC and CBD, the complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of California said.

“Thus Elevado Cocktails are not ‘perfectly microdosed'—they are not microdosed at all,” the complaint said.

The consumers also said that no food additive ...