Dispensaries

There are few Black-owned dispensaries in the St. Louis area. ViolaSTL is among the latest to open its doors to serve medical marijuana patients.

Five St. Louis-area Starbucks locations have taken steps toward unionizing to date, as workplaces including dispensaries and Amazon warehouses are organizing across the U.S.

The license lottery comes more than a year after the state was supposed to award new licenses.

Patients can expect to pony up more at the dispensary than they would on the black market, but experts say the prices are in line with Illinois’ recreational market.