Canna-cocktails and gummies: Missouri’s marijuana industry preps for legalization

June 4, 2022
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Missourians won’t vote on fully legalizing marijuana until later this year. But the industry is confident.

Over and over at its latest convention on Friday, leaders of one of the state’s newest business sectors spoke of the change as inevitable, citing hundreds of thousands of petition signatures and promising polls. They even invited state regulators to the event, at Union Station, to discuss how things would work when recreational use gets underway.

“I really debated about whether it was presumptuous to have this conversation,” convention organizer Karin Spinks Chester told a crowd. “But 390,000 signatures convinced me.”

On Friday, dozens of vendors set up booths in one of the hotel ballrooms to advertise their gummies, oils and beverages — “Try the HailMary D8 Cannatails TONIGHT!”

Beside those were tables for sellers of accessories, like pipes and scent-eliminating candles, and services for the industry, like online training for dispensary employees and shields designed to keep the bud fresh. [Read more at St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

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