He also said he hadn't heard discussions about regularly making cannabis jerky, nor had he made any before. In testimony Tuesday, Badcock said Joel paid him $250 to make a batch of THC jerky at the shop, providing him with cannabis oil to add to Off The Hook's regular recipe.īadcock testified he never spoke to John about the batch, nor did Joel mention having spoken to his father. Jerky-maker Terry Badcock presented a different version of events. 'I don't know how the store jerky got contaminated' He also said his relationship with his father had "completely deteriorated" because his father believed he was responsible for the situation. The fallout from the contaminated jerky, Joel testified, killed the idea of creating a legal cannabis jerky business. "We were just trying to create a legal business out of this," he said, describing the situation as "an accident." Joel said there was "nothing malicious" behind THC-tainted jerky making it out to the public. He told the court he assumed after hearing about the RCMP investigation that the situation was the result of "a cross-contamination thing," theorizing that some THC oil was left behind on smoking racks that were then used to make regular jerky. Joel said he didn't pay for the test batch and didn't know what happened to it, but didn't think it could have been mixed with regular jerky because it would have been put in a separate tub or bag and taken off-premises as soon as possible. That, he claimed, led to him, his father and an uncle exploring the possibility of creating a cannabis jerky business, and they had started working with an agency to help secure a licence.Īs part of that process, Joel testified, it was a "collective idea" to make a 25-pound test-batch of THC jerky at Off The Hook to see if the recipe he used at home could be scaled up. Joel said he took cannabis edibles to help with knee pain and had made cannabis jerky at home twice. Joel Pauch, owner John Pauch's son, testified he periodically worked for his father and had been at Off The Hook full-time for about a year leading up to the recall. Situation was 'an accident,' son testifies However, the boxes were gone when officers returned a few days later, and police found security cameras in the shop weren't hooked up to a hard drive. The agreed statement of facts says two samples tested "strongly" for cannabis and four samples each came back as "very strong" and "relatively weak", but doesn't provide details for the remaining bags.Įnvironmental health officers separately seized 671 bags of jerky at the shop but didn't immediately take them from the premises, instead boxing them up with plans to pick up the boxes later. Meanwhile, tests on 20 bags turned into the RCMP by the public found 14 of them contained cannabis. Testing by Health Canada detected cannabis in samples from bags stocked at six of the seven, including Save On Foods, Wykes' Independent Grocer and Bigway Foods.
Police also seized about 300 bags of the shop's jerky from seven Yukon stores during the investigation. Police and health officials ultimately identified 33 people in the Yukon, Alberta and Nova Scotia who experienced mild to severe "symptoms of cannabis intoxication" after eating Off The Hook jerky, including seven children and two infants. They had all recently consumed Off The Hook jerky, a commonality a doctor flagged to the RCMP, and which triggered Yukon health officials to issue a recall. Urine tests revealed they had THC - the psychoactive compound in cannabis - in their systems. 25 and 29, 2020, "displaying symptoms of severe intoxication by cannabis despite not having knowingly consumed any."
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John Pauch, who owned Off The Hook Meatworks, faces one count of allegedly selling or distributing cannabis without a licence under the territorial Cannabis Control and Regulations Act.Īccording to an agreed statement of facts filed at the start of the trial Monday, four people went to the emergency room at the Whitehorse General Hospital between Dec. The trial for the owner of a now-shuttered Whitehorse butcher shop that sold THC-tainted jerky in 2020 is underway. A new business now occupies the building. The shop's owner is facing a charge of selling or distributing cannabis without a licence after jerky tainted with THC was sold to the public in late 2020. A sign for Off the Hook Meatworks photographed in Whitehorse on Dec.
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