Marijuana

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.

Three companies — one from Michigan, one from Arizona and one from Missouri — appear connected to 43% of the social equity applications in Missouri.

After voters legalized recreational marijuana in November 2022, dispensaries licensed to sell medical products began selling to anyone over the age of 21 in February 2023.

While dispensary workers see progress, marijuana manufacturing employees say they are stuck in a ‘gray area,’ unable to unionize because they may be considered agriculture workers.

St. Louis could lose more than $500,000 in revenue and won't be able to begin collecting until early 2024 after the city didn't charge a 3% tax for recreational marijuana last month.

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.