Missouri Sets $125M Monthly Cannabis Sales Record In March
Wed / Apr 17th
Combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales totaled just under $125 million in March, setting a new monthly cannabis sales record for the state.
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:
Wed / Apr 17th
Combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales totaled just under $125 million in March, setting a new monthly cannabis sales record for the state.
Tue / Nov 21st
Missouri cannabis retailers sold $113.1 million worth of adult-use products in October, according to data from the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
Mon / Nov 20th
Missouri cannabis regulators have revoked the license of cannabis company Delta Extractions, which in August was the subject of a near-63,000 product recall.
Thu / Nov 16th
The National Labor and Relations Board has approved a settlement that will see a Missouri cannabis dispensary company reinstate five employees and pay more than $145,000 in backpack, front pay, and interest and compensation to 10 employees who were terminated after a March union organizing action.
Mon / Nov 13th
Missouri has expunged nearly 100,000 cannabis convictions as part of the state’s adult-use cannabis constitutional amendment approved last year by voters.
Fri / Nov 3rd
Missouri cannabis regulators removed nearly 15,000 cannabis products from the state’s sweeping August recall of nearly 63,000 products manufactured by Delta Extraction, LLC, which has called the recall an “unlawful campaign to destroy Delta’s business.”
Thu / Nov 2nd
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services this week transferred $13 million in revenue from the state’s medical cannabis program to the Missouri Veterans Commission.
Thu / Oct 12th
A Missouri cannabis retailer is suing the state claiming that the practice of stacking sales taxes on adult-use cannabis products is unconstitutional.
Mon / Sep 11th
Missouri’s combined medical and adult-use cannabis sales totals last week topped the $1 billion mark, according to state data.
Fri / Sep 1st
A Missouri judge this week dismissed the bid by a medical cannabis company to stop the recall of nearly 63,000 of its cannabis products.
Thu / Aug 31st
A Missouri cannabis company that had nearly 63,000 products recalled earlier this month is being sued by a medical cannabis firm that purchased more than $300,000 worth of the now-recalled products.
Thu / Aug 24th
Officials in St. Louis, Missouri are considering allowing cannabis lounges in the city where patrons could smoke and eat cannabis products on-site.
Tue / Aug 22nd
New rules in Missouri require cannabis testing labs to double-check the work of other labs in an effort to cut down on so-called “lab shopping,” which involves bringing (or shopping) a cannabis product to multiple testing labs before partnering with whichever lab offers the most favorable test results.
Thu / Aug 17th
The Missouri Auditor is investigating the state’s medical and adult-use cannabis programs to ensure accountability and transparency.
Wed / Aug 16th
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.
Tue / Aug 15th
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.
Mon / Jul 31st
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.
Mon / Jul 17th
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.”
Mon / Jul 10th
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.
Tue / May 9th
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.
Tue / Apr 18th
A Missouri House proposal would limit the sale of delta-8 THC products in the state to officially licensed cannabis dispensaries.
Fri / Apr 7th
Missouri’s total March cannabis sales topped $125 million, putting the state on track to exceed $1 billion in cannabis sales for the year.
Tue / Apr 4th
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.
Wed / Mar 22nd
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.
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