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After Missouri legalized medical marijuana in 2018 the industry has remained majority white, but one cannabis brand is changing that.

Fears mount as COVID-19 numbers continue to climb across Missouri, and a local cannabis company is the first Black-owned brand to be sold at a dispensary in the state.

The new industry has generated more than $70 million in less than a year. State officials said that amount is good but falls in line with expectations.

Unlike every other legal business in the state, marijuana companies are currently prohibited from deducting business expenses on their taxes.

Nearly 100,000 Missourians now have a medical marijuana card, and demand for edibles is booming. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how they’re made.

Ethan Ridings, 20, was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for killing two Kansas, City, Kansas, 19-year-olds during a small-time drug deal. His friend who involved him in the deal was placed on probation.

A bill that would legalize medicinal cannabis in Kansas would limit the types of problems the drug could be prescribed for. It would also guard against seeking out a doctor simply for a quick prescription.

A city councilmember said Prairie Village is in a “unique and necessary position" to address marijuana decriminalization, with medical marijuana legal in Missouri.

The number of fatal crashes in Kansas City involving marijuana has doubled in the last two years. Kansas City police are worried that a de-emphasis on marijuana possession enforcement could keep the number high.

How reparations could be a savvy economic policy in Kansas City, and medical marijuana debuts in the Kansas City area.

"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.

USPS users are bearing the brunt of mail delays and the service's financial shortcomings, Kansas and Missouri Democratic Party delegates are adjusting to a virtual version of their national political convention, and the medical marijuana program in Missouri has a deadline of late-September.