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Eric Schmid | St. Louis Public Radio2020 will be a year of new marijuana laws. Illinois became the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, six years after Colorado first started recreational sales. Missouri begins medical marijuana sales later in the year — likely this spring — and thousands of residents have already received certification cards. -
not for file use/not for file useThe Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has awarded licenses to 192 medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the state. According to the constitutional amendment voters approved in 2018, 24 dispensaries were licensed in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts.
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A bipartisan panel voted unanimously that the state overstepped its authority by requiring plain packaging in the adult-use cannabis market. -
The three cities join more than 40 others and four counties in the St. Louis area to pass a 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana. -
The fate of 45,000 recalled products is still pending before the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission. -
Hemp industry leaders, state marijuana regulators and members of Congress all seem to agree the feds should regulate CBD — but the standoff is over intoxicating hemp products. -
Marijuana manufacturer Delta Extraction has denied accusations that it illegally imported cannabis into Missouri, arguing it actually imported a non-psychoactive hemp product that was converted into THC once in the state. But dispensaries said they had no idea Delta's product was made from hemp. -
Business owners say they had no idea they were paying marijuana prices for a ‘synthetic’ THC that had been converted from hemp.
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The industry has sold more than $715 million of marijuana in the nearly 7 months since recreational sales began in February. Adult-use products account for almost $550 million of that total. -
Missouri law prohibits smoking marijuana in public places, unless local governments pass ordinances to permit it. But, what does that mean for Evolution Festival this weekend? -
Marijuana testing labs face pressure to say products have higher THC potency results or lose business. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' new rules — including an extra layer of “round robin” testing or auditing of marijuana products — aims to prevent the practice. -
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