Rebecca Rivas
Multimedia Reporter | Missouri IndependentRebecca Rivas is a multimedia reporter who covers Missouri's cannabis industry. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, she has been reporting in Missouri since 2001, including more than a decade as senior reporter and video producer at the St. Louis American, the nation’s leading African-American newspaper.
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At the same time when courts are required to dig through decades of non-digitized records for expungements, they are also involved in a large redacting project to make court records accessible online.
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The entire facility is 130,000 square feet, with the manufacturing portion taking up 55,000 square feet. The rest is under construction to build out the cultivation side — where the plants will grow — with opening anticipated for April.
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Three companies — one from Michigan, one from Arizona and one from Missouri — appear connected to 43% of the social equity applications in Missouri.
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While dispensary workers see progress, marijuana manufacturing employees say they are stuck in a ‘gray area,’ unable to unionize because they may be considered agriculture workers.
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A bipartisan panel voted unanimously that the state overstepped its authority by requiring plain packaging in the adult-use cannabis market.
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The fate of 45,000 recalled products is still pending before the Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission.
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Hemp industry leaders, state marijuana regulators and members of Congress all seem to agree the feds should regulate CBD — but the standoff is over intoxicating hemp products.
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Missouri regulators have agreed to delay revoking the license of the company at the center of the recall as a hearing over the matter is pushed to December.
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Marijuana manufacturer Delta Extraction has denied accusations that it illegally imported cannabis into Missouri, arguing it actually imported a non-psychoactive hemp product that was converted into THC once in the state. But dispensaries said they had no idea Delta's product was made from hemp.
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Business owners say they had no idea they were paying marijuana prices for a ‘synthetic’ THC that had been converted from hemp.
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Missouri law prohibits smoking marijuana in public places, unless local governments pass ordinances to permit it. But, what does that mean for Evolution Festival this weekend?
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Marijuana testing labs face pressure to say products have higher THC potency results or lose business. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' new rules — including an extra layer of “round robin” testing or auditing of marijuana products — aims to prevent the practice.