Competing Campaigns in Missouri Seek to Add Legalization Question to 2022 Ballots
Tue / Jul 20th
Two competing advocacy groups in Missouri are seeking to put an adult-use question to voters in the 2022 election.
A Missouri ballot initiative amended the state constitution in 2018, making medical cannabis legal. The plant remains illegal for recreational consumption, though the Senate decriminalized possession in 2014. This page sorts the Missouri cannabis industry news, policy, and other updates:
Tue / Jul 20th
Two competing advocacy groups in Missouri are seeking to put an adult-use question to voters in the 2022 election.
Mon / Jul 12th
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson vetoed a measure that would have let medical cannabis companies deduct normal business expenses when filing their state taxes.
Tue / Jul 6th
Medical cannabis sales in Missouri reached a new record in June at nearly $16.4 million.
Tue / May 25th
In a nearly unanimous vote, Missouri lawmakers delivered a bill to the governor that will let the state’s medical cannabis companies deduct ordinary business expenses on their state tax returns.
Thu / May 20th
A Missouri appeals court ruled that medical cannabis regulators in the state cannot keep secret the industry’s business license applications.
Tue / Apr 27th
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is set to attend a fundraiser today hosted by medical cannabis licensees; the fundraiser has some concerned, however, due to the governor’s stated intention of retiring after the end of his term.
Thu / Apr 15th
The city councils in St. Louis and Maplewood, Missouri voted to decriminalize cannabis possession on Tuesday.
Thu / Mar 18th
Missouri officials have started to revoke the business licenses of some medical cannabis operators who failed to open their business on time.
Fri / Feb 26th
A Missouri lawmaker has proposed expanding the state’s Right to Try law to include psychedelic substances such as psilocybin, MDMA, LSD, mescaline, ibogaine, and DMT.
Mon / Feb 1st
Metrc has lost a second court challenge against the state of Missouri as the company pushes for the right to charge medical cannabis providers for each RFID tracking tag.
Tue / Jan 5th
Republican Missouri State Rep. Shamed Dogan has proposed a constitutional amendment to legalize and regulate cannabis; the proposal would leave the legalization question up to voters during the 2022 election.
Fri / Dec 18th
A Pennsylvania-based cannabis investor is suing Missouri over residency requirements for the state’s medical cannabis business licenses.
Thu / Dec 10th
Missouri’s medical cannabis industry is experiencing product shortages two months after the market’s launch.
Mon / Nov 16th
Former NBA player Larry Hughes is partnering with former teammate Al Harrington to found two dispensaries and a cultivation/processing center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Tue / Nov 3rd
Across the U.S. today, voters from Montana to New Jersey will consider a series of ballot initiatives that could represent yet another dramatic shift for the country away from our archaic cannabis and drug policies.
Thu / Oct 29th
A lawsuit against Missouri’s medical cannabis system claims the state-imposed license caps violate Missourians’ constitutional right to farm.
Wed / Oct 21st
The first medical cannabis dispensaries in Missouri opened near St. Louis over the weekend. Officials expect most of the state’s 192 anticipated dispensaries to open by the end of the year.
Thu / Sep 17th
Missouri House Democrats have accused the Department of Health and Senior Services of foul play during the state’s medical cannabis licensing process and of obstructing an investigation into the program.
Tue / Sep 8th
Federal officials have approved industrial hemp program proposals for Maine and Missouri.
Wed / Jul 29th
An additional 350 Missouri cannabis patients have been identified as having received fake physician certifications for the state’s medical cannabis program; the scheme has affected about 1,000 patients, so far.
Fri / Jul 10th
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri have decided to remove cannabis possession from the city code, effectively decriminalizing low-level possession.
Tue / Jun 23rd
Some 600 medical cannabis patients in Missouri could lose access to the program after state regulators realized the applicants’ physician certification forms were submitted with an unauthorized signature.
Mon / May 18th
Missouri lawmakers have approved a measure giving medical cannabis regulators in the state the ability to access the FBI’s national fingerprint and background check database; the bill also aims to ban kid-friendly cannabis edibles shapes.
Tue / May 12th
Lawmakers in Missouri’s House of Representatives have approved legislation to remove the state’s medical cannabis licensing cap; the proposal would allow any qualifying business owner to secure a license.
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