Missouri Total Cannabis Sales Reach $125M in March
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.
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:
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.
Mon / Mar 6th
Missouri’s newly legal cannabis industry topped $100 million in sales during its first month of adult-use sales.
Fri / Jan 27th
Northwest Missouri State University is partnering with cannabis education company Green Flower for a cannabis certificate program covering cannabis-related science and business.
Tue / Jan 10th
Missouri regulators have released the sample application for adults who want to grow their own cannabis under the state’s voter-approved legalization measure.
Thu / Dec 8th
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.
Thu / Nov 17th
Missouri’s cannabis legalization law has the potential to automatically expunge more than 100,000 low-level cannabis possession cases.
Mon / Nov 14th
Officials in Missouri have circulated draft rules for its adult-use cannabis industry with the aim of launching before February of next year.
Wed / Nov 9th
Missouri became the first mid-western state and the 21st state overall to approve adult-use cannabis reforms in Tuesday’s elections.
Thu / Nov 3rd
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.
Mon / Oct 31st
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.
Tue / Oct 25th
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.
Mon / Oct 17th
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.
Fri / Sep 30th
The Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys is asking voters to reject the cannabis legalization amendment appearing on November ballots.
Tue / Sep 27th
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.
Mon / Sep 19th
A Missouri judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to block a cannabis legalization question from appearing on the state’s November ballots.
Thu / Sep 1st
A Missouri Democratic representative formed a coalition this week opposing the state’s cannabis legalization ballot measure over its lack of social equity measures, its proposed fines for smoking cannabis in public, and issues with its automatic expungement provisions.
Tue / Aug 16th
Internal polling data from Missouri NORML shows that 62% of voters are likely to back the state’s adult-use cannabis reforms during the November elections.
Wed / Aug 10th
Missouri’s cannabis legalization initiative has been cleared for November ballots.
Fri / Jul 22nd
A bid to put a cannabis legalization question on the midterm ballots in Missouri this year may be in jeopardy after early tabulations suggested the petition may fall short of signature requirements.
Fri / Jun 10th
Missouri companies Archimedes Medical Holdings, FUJM, and Holistic Health Capital must destroy medical cannabis products and relinquish their licenses as per an agreement with regulators following accusations of “pervasive irregularities.”
Tue / May 24th
A new survey in Missouri found that 62% of adults support cannabis legalization in the state.
Thu / May 12th
The 4/20 holiday represented a single-day record for Missouri with medical cannabis sales reaching $2.85 million, leading to a $6 million increase in April over March.
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