Following the ruling, county marijuana sales taxes will only apply to dispensaries in unincorporated areas.
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Missouri Supreme Court to decide on marijuana ‘tax stacking.’ Here’s what that means for your wallet.
The court weighs arguments from dispensaries and counties about the legality of both cities and counties taxing marijuana sales.
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National marijuana companies recruit Missourians to land licenses meant for people harmed by weed prohibition
This story originally indicated that Mike Halow declined comment. A public relations firm representing him later said that was his father, who has the same name. Aimee Gromowsky was puzzled when she found a flier in her mailbox asking her to apply for a cannabis dispensary license. In bold letters on one side, it read: “ONCE […]
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What’s in your weed? A Missouri state lab to check industry claims
Missouri plans to spend millions from state marijuana taxes on a laboratory to help regulators keep tabs on the safety and potency of more than $1 billion of joints, edibles and other cannabis products sold annually across the state. Health experts and consumer groups applauded the added regulatory check, outlined in an Oct. 11 report […]
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Kansas lawmakers could again debate medical weed. Here’s why it has failed before
Takeaways: Yet another spring in Topeka and more seemingly serious talk about legalizing medical marijuana in Kansas. Lawmakers and supporters of pulling Kansas cannabis regulations in line with a national trend and the laws of neighboring states say things look different this year — perhaps. But this process is wearing on advocates who say the […]
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Kansas lawmakers could again debate medical weed. Here’s why it has failed before
Takeaways: Yet another spring in Topeka and more seemingly serious talk about legalizing medical marijuana in Kansas. Lawmakers and supporters of pulling Kansas cannabis regulations in line with a national trend and the laws of neighboring states say things look different this year — perhaps. But this process is wearing on advocates who say the […]
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Missouri legalized weed last year, yet Kansas saw little increase in drug arrests
Takeaways: More than 1 million Kansans live within an hour’s drive of Missouri and its dispensaries selling legal cannabis at seemingly every strip mall. Yet even with that new, easy access to legal weed, fewer people face arrest in Kansas on marijuana charges. Prosecutors and police remain obliged to enforce the state’s prohibition on cannabis […]