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At the same time when courts are required to dig through decades of non-digitized records for expungements, they are also involved in a large redacting project to make court records accessible online. Missouri courts have granted more than 103,000 expungements so far.
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Missouri's microbusiness marijuana license program is meant to boost opportunities in the industry for businesses in disadvantaged communities. Three companies — one from Michigan, one from Arizona and one from Missouri — appear connected to 43% of the applications.
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Various state and local sales taxes lumped onto your purchase can add upwards of 20% to the cost of recreational marijuana in Missouri — but it's not clear how much is legal under the state's cannabis laws. Now, dispensaries are suing over the stacked taxes.
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Statewide purchases of marijuana reached $950 million since Missouri began offering recreational sales in February, and the job market continues to grow. The state has also begun awarding microbusiness licenses. But it hasn't been all roses for the weed industry.
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One year ago, Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana in the state. Since then, the cannabis industry has grown rapidly, garnering over $1 billion in sales and creating thousands of jobs. Can the industry sustain its growth in a post-legalization world?
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Homestate is the second unionized dispensary in Missouri, and the first in Kansas City. Organizers say Missouri is the new frontier in the effort to unionize the billion-dollar industry as it continues to grow.
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The constitutional amendment that legalized recreational weed sales in Missouri included a 6% statewide tax and allowed local governments to charge a sales tax of up to 3% — but it's not clear if both counties and cities can tax the same sales. Now, two lawsuits are calling the double-taxation an "unconstitutional money grab."
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Students at Missouri’s Truman State University can now earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in cannabis — and Truman isn’t the only academic institution teaching about weed.
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For the first time this fall semester, students at Truman State University can declare a new major: cannabis and natural medicinals.
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Missouri dispensary owners say they had no idea they were paying marijuana prices for a "synthetic" THC that had been converted from hemp. State regulators last month issued a product recall that pulled more than 60,000 items off the shelves.
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The industry has sold more than $715 million of marijuana in the nearly 7 months since recreational sales began in February. There are now some 200 weed dispensaries spread across the state.
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The state's microbusiness license program is supposed to give Missourians from disadvantaged communities a chance to enter the recreational marijuana industry.