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Recreational marijuana will soon be legal for Missourians over the age of 21 after voters passed Amendment 3. But how soon can people expect to buy it, and what's the timeline for expunging criminal records?
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Kansas Citians can expect to begin purchasing recreational marijuana in early February. Now the city is working to pass an additional sales tax on cannabis products and prevent any “red light district” for weed from cropping up.
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The Show Me State voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Here's how Missouri will transition to the retail sale of weed and expunge old convictions.
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Amendment 3, which Missouri voters passed on Tuesday, will go into effect on Dec. 8. Under the newly-approved constitutional amendment, Missourians over 21 will be able to go to a dispensary without a medical marijuana card and buy flower, pre-rolled joints, edibles and other marijuana products.
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Amendment 3, the recreational marijuana question on Missouri's ballot, would expunge the criminal records of people with past non-violent marijuana charges and potentially destigmatize the industry. However, it caps the number of licenses to grow and sell cannabis, disadvantaging smaller businesses.
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The newly-rearranged Kansas 3rd congressional district is seeing incumbent Democrat Sharice Davids face off against Republican Amanda Adkins, with abortion and inflation stealing the spotlight. Plus: Missourians will decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana this election, but Amendment 3 isn't that straight forward.
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Amendment 3 on the Missouri statewide ballot would legalize the adult use of marijuana for those 21 and older. But people could still get fined for smoking in public, and the process of expunging past offenses is complicated.
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Rural Missourians voted heavily in support of medical marijuana legalization in 2018 and seem to have welcomed it readily into their communities. Come November, they could be the deciding votes on an adult-use marijuana legalization amendment.
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Critics of the Legal Missouri amendment say it furthers the mistakes of the state’s medical marijuana market and will continue to push out minority growers and small businesses.
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If passed in November's election, the petition would legalize recreational marijuana for those 21 and older. The recreational system would include caps on licenses and give precedence to existing licensees, who would be permitted to serve both medical and non-medical purchasers.
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More than 2,000 applications were submitted for medical marijuana licenses in 2019, but fewer than 400 were ultimately awarded. And while the state doesn’t track the race of those who got a license, people in the burgeoning industry say few went to Black-owned businesses.