Recreational Marijuana

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the recreational marijuana law nearly four years ago. It contained language that made hundreds of thousands of people eligible to have marijuana-related charges removed from their records.

Missouri regulators listed ZIP codes that qualify as having historic incarceration rates for marijuana offenses in the new cannabis rules. None are in north St. Louis where about half of the state’s Black population resides.

Missouri’s emerging marijuana industry surpasses $1 billion in sales

St. Louis and St. Louis County are among the jurisdictions where voters approved the tax, but there are questions about the scope of countywide marijuana taxes.

The newly-created position will work to ensure social and economic equity requirements of Missouri’s new marijuana law are met

Under Amendment 3, known as Legal Missouri 2022, some state marijuana offenses could be expunged either automatically or through an appeal process. However, critics of the amendment say the provisions pick and choose who are forgiven.

Two initiatives proposing amendments to the Missouri Constitution were submitted Sunday. If each has sufficient signatures, they will likely be on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The license lottery comes more than a year after the state was supposed to award new licenses.

A quarter of all state tax revenue from recreational marijuana is supposed to help address long-standing issues in underserved communities.

Illinois generated around $175 million in tax revenue from cannabis in 2020, and 25% of that money goes back to communities in the form of grants.