Rebecca Rivas
ReporterRebecca Rivas covers civil rights, criminal justice and immigration for the Missouri Independent. She has been reporting in Missouri since 2001, most recently as senior reporter and video producer at the St. Louis American, the nation's leading African-American newspaper.
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Many are grappling with the financial uncertainty of investing their life savings as they work to make their marijuana businesses a success. -
More than 40,000 Missouri food establishments and stores are estimated to be impacted by federal regulations on hemp products, which were included in the new spending package that reopened the federal government. -
7-OH is sold as gummies, candies, imitation ice cream cones, liquid shots, tablets and powders. Kansas City-based Shaman Botanicals has been at the center of the drug's rise, and received a warning from the FDA. -
Missouri already allows dispensaries to offer drive-thru and delivery services, but curbside service would mean customers can pay online in advance so they don't need to exchange cash on site. -
The Trump administration is considering placing marijuana in the same federal classification as codeine, instead of where it currently is alongside heroin. -
Retailers in other states have offered steep discounts that threaten market stability, analysts said at the MJ Unpacked cannabis conference in St. Louis. -
Revenue from marijuana sales has gone up, but fewer people are going to casinos in Missouri. That means funding that goes toward operational needs of the state’s seven veterans homes is still 'year to year to year,' according to lawmakers. -
Two years ago, Missouri regulators suspended Delta Extraction's license after finding the company's THC concentrate was made with out-state cannabis. Now, even more products have been declared a "potential threat to health and safety." -
Missouri's marijuana regulators believe that many "designated contacts" for cannabis businesses have kept the actual eligible applicants in the dark. Now, the state is cracking down. -
Of the 96 microbusiness licenses issued by Missouri through a lottery since the program’s inception last year, cannabis consultant David Brodsky is connected to seven. They are all under investigation or facing revocation.
