Cannabis

If the Court of Appeals ruling had been allowed to stand, Missouri argued it would have been forced to award marijuana licenses to applicants who might not have even gotten the necessary scores in 2019.

Delta-8 THC products — including a large variety of drinks that are popular at bars and available at gas stations throughout the state — can be sold in Missouri stores because they are made from hemp, which is federally legal.

Some of the licenses were connected to a Michigan company who recruited out-of-state applicants through Craigslist.

Testimony and evidence presented during this week’s appeal hearing showed state regulators were aware Delta Extraction was using hemp-derived THC long before its products were recalled.

Delta Extraction will try to convince the Administrative Hearing Commission to reverse its license revocation and allow it to sell its product in Missouri after allegations the company violated state law by selling THC concentrate derived from out-of-state hemp.

Since recreational weed was legalized in Missouri, thousands of residents say they get a greater high than from the pot they used to buy. It's spurred many consumers to ask: "Has weed gotten stronger?"

Marijuana cultivation facilities operate like fine-tuned machines while turning out multiple full crops of cannabis each year.

Members from both Missouri's Democrats and Republican parties questioned current science and testing to determine is someone is impaired by marijuana use.

At the same time when courts are required to dig through decades of non-digitized records for expungements, they are also involved in a large redacting project to make court records accessible online.

The entire facility is 130,000 square feet, with the manufacturing portion taking up 55,000 square feet. The rest is under construction to build out the cultivation side — where the plants will grow — with opening anticipated for April.