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It's Been 2 Years Since Missouri Voters Approved Medical Marijuana, But No One Is Getting Cannabis Yet

By Brian Ellison,

Published August 19, 2020 at 1:26 PM CDT

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Two years after Missouri voters gave cultivation, sales and possession of medical marijuana the green light, state officials hope to open the program late this summer.

"There's been a lot of water pass under the bridge" since Missouri set a spring 2020 deadline for getting sales off the ground, said the state official in charge.

More than 60,000 Missourians have applied for a medical marijuana card. Zero of them have received medical marijuana in the state. Missouri's official deadline for opening up shop is now late summer.

Lyndall Fraker, director of the Missouri DHSS Section for Medical Marijuana Regulation
Jack Cardetti, spokesperson for the Missouri Medical Cannabis Trade Association

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