Rebecca Rivas

Between recreational and medical marijuana, Missouri hit $350 million in sales in the first three months since the state began allowing dispensaries to sale legal weed. Yet cannabis business owners say those numbers could be even higher since cultivators and manufacturers aren’t working at max capacity.

The bill would put the hemp-derived THC products under the same regulations as marijuana. Proponents say it’s about safety, though critics complain it further fuels the ‘marijuana monopoly.’

The number of licenses DHSS approves for new employees each month has quadrupled since November.

The measure to study psilocybin therapy still needs a final vote in the House before it heads to the Senate.

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft tweeted that a job posting for a “diversity, inclusion and belonging leader” was an example of “left-wing indoctrination in the workplace” and the wrong use of taxpayer dollars. State agency leaders say inclusion and belonging programs help retain employees during a severe staffing shortage.

A huge selling point for those who voted for Amendment 3 in November was the automatic expungement provision — meaning people who have already served their sentences for past charges will have their records cleared. All marijuana-related misdemeanors must be expunged by June 8 and felonies by Dec. 8.

A decade after St. Louis officially reclaimed local control of its police, a Missouri Senate bill would put the department back under state control — a policy originally born out pro-slavery leaders’ attempt to maintain power 150 years ago.

Proposal targeting St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will be expanded to allow takeover by governor’s order anywhere in the state with violent crime rates.

The newly-created position will work to ensure social and economic equity requirements of Missouri’s new marijuana law are met

Judge David Mason says he’ll hold a hearing to announce his decision but has not yet set a date.

A 2021 state law carved out a narrow role the attorney general’s office can play in innocence claims filed by local prosecutors.

Dwight Warren, who served in the St. Louis Circuit Attorneys Office when Johnson was convicted in 1995, defended how he handled the case