Greater St. Louis NORML

05/01/2026

Former Missouri Supreme Court Judge Mike Wolff comments, "This was from the very start an insider’s game. The insiders are the people who already had licenses. The insiders not only got the licenses, but now they’re trying to control the market in a way that keeps prices in place and drives out competition.”

Good Day Farm was the top donor to Missouri’s 2022 legalization campaign. Records show its network grew after the amendment passed.

04/24/2026

Where is our illegally obtained tax money?

Boone County has already sent back more than $860,000 in ma*****na tax revenue to the state, with another $289,570 now due, as Missouri unwinds taxes that were improperly collected under

04/24/2026

From SSDP: "Cannabis rescheduling is a step forward, but not justice. At SSDP, we’re fighting for full federal legalization and real repair of the harms caused by prohibition. Rescheduling won’t do that."

04/24/2026

Included as part of Missouri Constitution Article XIV and includes an education mandate.

A public comment period opens May 1 for the rules governing Missouri's proposed research licenses.

03/19/2026

“Don’t write anything that you don’t want everybody to read. Say it and forget it; write it and regret it.” Instructions from the scoring vendor for licenses couldn't be more clear. A unanimous court ruling is a devastating assessment on how Missouri awarded legal ma*****na market licenses. Scorers’ determinations were based on the subjective valuations of the scorers,” the ruling states. “This fundamental flaw infected the entire scoring process.”

A Missouri appeals court delivered a sweeping rebuke of the state’s ma*****na licensing process, ordering regulators to award Hippos 13 licenses

03/13/2026

"Happy Friday the 13th! It may be scary to some. But one thing that shouldn't be scary is inspections." Really? There's nothing like an unannounced inspection to send thrills down your spine with the thought of losing your dispensary or manufacturing license because of compliance violations. We appreciate the attempt at humor with the Division of Cannabis Regulation's opening remarks on their Friday the 13th emailed newsletter. Maybe it's a kinder, gentler, and softer hammer they are wielding on Missouri Cannabis license holders. Regardless, you can hear all the gory details on DCR's YouTube channel. Find out what Deputy Director Brittany Kirkweg and Compliance Officer Kevin Pitkin have to say about unannounced inspections and what a licensee can expect when the DCR shows up on the doorstep of your favorite dispensary. Shayna and Tara will talk about the Verified Dispensary initiative and what it means to be regulated. Oh goody! We wouldn't want any unsuspecting cannabis consumer to cross the threshold into an unverified H**p shop. Would we?

(00:00) Intro with Tara and Shayna(01:19) DCR's Verified Dispensaries Initiative(05:09) Section for Compliance and Enforcement with Brittany and Kevin(18:56)...

02/19/2026

"The Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) approved an application scoring process with significant design flaws. Application scorers evaluating the applications for Wise Health Solutions (WHS) were instructed to not document notes to support their scoring decisions, and did not consistently apply redaction rules, which undermined the "blind scoring" goals of the
process. In addition, the DCR did not design the application process in a way that would facilitate review by the DCR," writes Scott Fitzpatrick, Missouri State Auditor in an audit report.

Missouri’s ‘blind scoring’ system could be circumvented, State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick found, which clouded the process and sparked costly litigation.

02/14/2026

Missouri ma*****na sales reached $1.52 billion in 2025, including $1.34 billion in adult use sales and $173.69 million in medical ma*****na sales. The annual total represents Missouri’s strongest year since legal ma*****na sales began. Legal cannabis brought in $255 million in tax revenue in 2025. While this is impressive, what would legal sales be with additional retail outlets? The sky is the limit. DCR should immediately double the amount of licenses available for new applicants. Let the party begin.

Missouri's cannabis tax revenue hit $255 million in 2026, 6 times higher than predicted.

01/16/2026

Both Missouri bills would prohibit h**p products from containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container, which is among the limits included in a provision in the federal spending bill Congress approved last year.
They both would regulate intoxicating h**p the same as ma*****na, which would essentially ban current h**p products because ma*****na must be grown in Missouri and most h**p is grown outside of the state. They would also require h**p products to be sold in licensed cannabis dispensaries, where most are currently sold in gas stations, liquor stores, restaurants and smoke shops.

Missouri lawmakers heard bills this week that would align state policy with the upcoming federal limits on intoxicating h**p products.

12/31/2025

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

MISSOURI REVISES POLICY ON MEDICAL MA*****NA PATIENTS

The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) has changed its interpretation of Sections 1 and 2 of Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution to allow medical ma*****na patients to purchase the same amount of cannabis as other adult consumers.

Missouri NORML had urged the DCR to take this step in correspondence and with a Missouri NORML press release issued earlier this year. Previously, DCR had taken the position that medical ma*****na patients were limited to the monthly purchase amounts originally included in Section 1, passed by Missouri voters in 2018.

Missouri NORML and others had urged DCR to recognize that, when Missouri voters passed Section 2 of Article XIV in 2022, allowing all adults in Missouri to purchase larger amounts of cannabis, that effectively revised and amended the earlier Section of the Constitution in regard to purchase limit amounts for adult medical ma*****na patients.

Earlier this month, without any public announcement, DCR changed its interpretation of the law. The “Frequently Asked Questions” on the DCR website now reflects this new interpretation of the law. Missouri NORML applauds DCR’s action which will benefit Missouri medical ma*****na patients and allow them to purchase the same amounts of cannabis as others.

For more information contact Dan Viets, J.D.

12/30/2025

What a year for cannabis in 2025! We’re on the path again to Federal Rescheduling. Consumers with access to legal cannabis use less alcohol negatively affecting alcohol markets. Teen cannabis usage continues to decline. More than 53,000 cannabis plant studies have been cataloged by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an all time high. Support for legalization remains strong with two out of three adults in the US in favor of legalization. However, the cannabis plant remains under attack by Texas, Nebraska, and Ohio lawmakers as well as Federal lawmakers who are restricting federally legal h**p products. State and local law enforcement made nearly 190,000 ma*****na possession-related arrests in 2024, according to data compiled by the FBI. While that total represents a 30-year low, why does ma*****na comprise 22 percent of all drug arrests nationwide? There’s still work to do.

NORML's Year in Review