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BY: Rebecca Rivas - April 23, 2024

April 20 is a day recognized globally for celebrating cannabis culture, but it's also like the cannabis industry's Black Friday.  Dispensaries offer deals designed to inspire people to flood their stores to stock up.  However on Saturday, dispensaries across the state using an inventory platform called Dutchie were hamstrung for hours by technical challenges, which […]

Missouri attorney general launches investigation of intoxicating hemp products

BY: Rebecca Rivas - April 19, 2024

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey launched an investigation into four companies Wednesday as part of an effort to crack down on intoxicating hemp products. The problem, according to Bailey, is the products in question — such Delta-8 edibles and vape pens — are not clearly labeled to indicate that they'll get you high. "When purchasing […]

Missouri Supreme Court denies marijuana company's appeal of denied license

BY: Jason Hancock - April 2, 2024

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that state marijuana regulators were within their authority to deny a cultivation business license to a company that failed to include proper paperwork with its application.  Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow marijuana in 2019. The company was denied when the state said […]

St. Louis-area cannabis workers win the right to review ballots in union election 

BY: Rebecca Rivas - March 22, 2024

Employees at BeLeaf Medical's Sinse Cannabis site in St. Louis moved a step closer to unionizing last week, when their employer's efforts to block union election votes from being counted were rebuffed by a federal labor official. Since September, BeLeaf leaders have argued before the National Labor Relations Board that the employees weren't eligible to […]

Three-day hearing reveals behind-the-scenes details of Missouri marijuana recall

BY: Rebecca Rivas - March 7, 2024

Jack Maritz was working at Delta Extraction, a marijuana manufacturing facility in Robertsville, in February 2023 when the company's regular state compliance officer stopped by unannounced.  The officer, Heather Bilyeu, wanted to make sure Delta had "accurate counts" in the state's tracking database of how much THC distillate, or concentrated THC oil, they had in […]

Hearing on recall of 60,000 Missouri marijuana products set to begin

BY: Rebecca Rivas - March 4, 2024

Jason Sparks is an Oklahoma man who almost single-handedly created the distillate that led to Missouri regulators' decision to pull more than 60,000 marijuana products off the shelves in August and revoke the license of Robertsville-based Delta Extraction. Now, he's the star witness in a hearing scheduled to begin Monday morning, where Delta will try […]

Company continues to argue Missouri cannabis workers can't unionize

BY: Rebecca Rivas - February 13, 2024

Ahmad Haynes and a handful of employees at BeLeaf Medical's Sinse Cannabis site in St. Louis anxiously waited for the clock to hit 5 p.m. He and his co-workers had gathered outside the St. Louis Public Library's Barr branch, where they had cast their votes to unionize earlier that afternoon on Feb. 6. The election […]