Booming Missouri medical marijuana industry bets on full legalization in 2022

February 6, 2022
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JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri medical marijuana sales are climbing and thousands of workers have flocked to the industry. Now, business owners are betting big on full legalization in 2022.

In the town of Humansville, Missouri, troops of cannabis workers are tending to crops in a facility about the size of a typical Target store. They are cultivating dozens of strains of flower for Flora Farms, one of the state’s most ubiquitous brands.

“We think the market will go up three or four times (if full legalization passes),” said Mark Hendren, president of Flora Farms. “We hope that and we expect that. And that’s just looking at what’s happened in other markets.”

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