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Secret marijuana records would be unveiled under plan approved by Missouri House

The state House on Tuesday voted to pry open a trove of secret state records that detail the ownership structures of Missouri’s medical marijuana companies. Lawmakers approved the plan, as an amendment to an unrelated bill, on a bipartisan 128-6…

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Missouri ballot measure on marijuana advances

Campaigns to legalize recreational marijuana use and allow ranked-choice voting in Missouri both turned in voter signatures by Sunday’s deadline, putting the measures one step closer to appearing on statewide ballots in November. In order to get a proposal on…

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Missouri’s medical marijuana license caps withstand appeal

The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals has affirmed a December 2020 decision by a Cole County judge who threw out a lawsuit alleging limitations on the number of medical marijuana licenses issued by the state were unconstitutional. Sarcoxie Nursery…

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Lawmaker says GOP resistance may doom Missouri marijuana legalization bill

A Republican lawmaker pushing legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in Missouri says his bill is in jeopardy because of stall tactics by his GOP colleagues and the insistence of the House floor leader that it include license caps. Rep. Ron Hicks,…

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Could this year’s 4/20 be the last without legal recreational marijuana in Missouri?

Marijuana could be legalized for recreational use within the next year in Missouri, but the exact path to that legalization still remains murky. Four years after the Show-Me State made medical marijuana legal, efforts by both state lawmakers and a…

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Missouri medical marijuana sales near $1M per day

Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries topped $30 million in monthly sales for the first time in March as the industry continued to pick up steam. That put overall sales for the 17-month-old program at nearly $300 million, more than a third…

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‘Poison pill’ creates headache for backers of plan to fully legalize marijuana in Missouri

One Republican’s controversial amendment has caused turbulence for another lawmaker’s plan to fully legalize marijuana in Missouri. Rep. Nick Schroer, of St. Charles County, amended the so-called Cannabis Freedom Act on Thursday to exclude transgender women from access to no-interest loans…

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With legalization looming, Black Missourians worry about losing out in marijuana industry

Abe Givins sunk into a leather armchair at the Cola Private Lounge in St. Louis on Saturday afternoon, where his company hosted a panel of doctors speaking about medical marijuana. Givins is co-owner of Village, which advertises itself as the…

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Missouri Marijuana Legalization Bill Aims High but Expectations Remain Low

February 25, 2022
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An ambitious new bill called the Cannabis Freedom Act from Missouri state Rep. Ron Hicks (R–St. Charles County) aims to legalize recreational marijuana consumption, provide relief to nonviolent offenders who used the drug, and allow restaurants, bars, and other private venues to sell cannabis.…

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…

Black entrepreneurs in Missouri are shut out of the medical marijuana business

January 26, 2022
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Black entrepreneurs are being left out of the booming medical marijuana business in Missouri. And the state is losing some of its brightest entrepreneurial minds as a result. But an initiative to place recreational pot on the ballot in November…

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As Missouri looks to legalize recreational marijuana, expungement gets renewed attention

January 24, 2022
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The push to legalize recreational marijuana use in Missouri is coming from multiple directions, with a handful of proposed initiative petitions and at least one bill, and potentially more, backed by Republican lawmakers. Each hopes to place the issue on…

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Medical marijuana sales in Missouri top $200M, meeting expected projections

More than 160,000 Missourians have access to medical marijuana products, said Lyndall Fraker, director of the section on medical marijuana regulation in the Department of Health and Senior Services. "We believe it will continue to grow," Fraker said. "It will…

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Missouri medical marijuana sales pass $200 million after launching 14 months ago

December 21, 2021
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In October 2020, the first medical marijuana sale was made by a qualified patient in Missouri. Fourteen months later, more than 158,000 patients have been granted access through Missouri’s medical marijuana regulatory program, and the total sale of state-regulated medical…

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Can Missouri keep medical marijuana applications secret? Supreme Court to decide

December 15, 2021
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The Missouri Supreme Court will decide whether the state’s medical marijuana regulators can continue to keep secret the applications of businesses that won licenses — a case that could determine the outcome of hundreds of appeals of denied licenses in…

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