Missouri

Combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales in Missouri have topped $100 million again for the sixth consecutive month, totaling $123.2 million in July.

Cannabis regulators in Missouri issued a recall this week for nearly 63,000 cannabis products manufactured by Delta Extraction, LLC because they were not tracked by METRC, the state’s seed-to-sale tracking system.

The St. Louis Community College is now offering three in-person, for-credit cannabis education courses, while Missouri’s Metropolitan Communication College has launched three not-for-credit online classes in partnership with cannabis education company Green Flower.

Missouri’s new cannabis packaging rules limit companies to using just one primary color per piece of packaging. Additionally, packaging can contain up to two logos or symbols but they cannot be larger than the clearly printed word, “Marijuana.”

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) signed a bill to increase banking access for the state’s cannabis industry; the bill also adds new fingerprinting and background check requirements for cannabis industry employees.

Missouri cannabis dispensaries topped $350 million in sales during the state’s first three months of adult-use sales, and the industry remains on track to exceed $1 billion in sales during the program’s first year.

A Missouri House proposal would limit the sale of delta-8 THC products in the state to officially licensed cannabis dispensaries.

Missouri’s total March cannabis sales topped $125 million, putting the state on track to exceed $1 billion in cannabis sales for the year.

Lawmakers in the Missouri House passed a measure last week to mandate studies investigating psilocybin, the psychedelic substance in hallucinogenic mushrooms, as a mental health treatment.

Missouri’s legal system has expunged more than 15,000 cannabis misdemeanors and felonies since voters approved the state’s adult-use legalization proposal last year.

Missouri’s newly legal cannabis industry topped $100 million in sales during its first month of adult-use sales.

Northwest Missouri State University is partnering with cannabis education company Green Flower for a cannabis certificate program covering cannabis-related science and business.

Missouri regulators have released the sample application for adults who want to grow their own cannabis under the state’s voter-approved legalization measure.

Cannabis is now legal for adults to consume, possess, and cultivate in Missouri. Cannabis sales remain off-limits for now but the state’s medical dispensaries are expected to open to adult-use consumers sometime next year.

Missouri’s cannabis legalization law has the potential to automatically expunge more than 100,000 low-level cannabis possession cases.

Officials in Missouri have circulated draft rules for its adult-use cannabis industry with the aim of launching before February of next year.

Missouri became the first mid-western state and the 21st state overall to approve adult-use cannabis reforms in Tuesday’s elections.

The mayor of St. Louis, Missouri has come out in opposition to adult-use cannabis legalization in the state, indicating that the amendment will create a “permanent exclusion” of minorities from the state’s cannabis industry.

The Missouri Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is campaigning for voters to approve adult-use cannabis reforms during the midterm elections with the aim of rectifying the harm done to communities by the war on drugs.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol contested cannabis legalization advertisements which have since been pulled from YouTube. Police claimed copyright infringement over an actor in uniform.

The campaign to legalize adult-use cannabis in Missouri has raised nearly $700,000 in large donations, primarily from the state’s current medical cannabis license holders.

The Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys is asking voters to reject the cannabis legalization amendment appearing on November ballots.

If Missouri voters approve legalization this November, the state’s adult-use cannabis industry could generate between $250 million and $300 million in sales during its first few years.

A Missouri judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a cannabis legalization question from appearing on the state’s November ballots.