Applicants for adult-use marijuana social equity business licenses in Missouri are crying foul after it was revealed that nearly half the licenses awarded in the Kansas City area went to companies registered out of state.

According to The Kansas City Star, “secretive” limited liability companies registered in Wyoming won microbusiness permits over local, Black-owned operators.

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Wyoming state law shields ownership information from being publicly disclosed.

Not Missouri’s first social equity controversy

This is only the latest round of controversy for adult-use social equity licensing in Missouri, where voters legalized recreational cannabis in November 2022.

Adult-use sales launched the following year at existing medical marijuana dispensaries.

This past March, Missouri regulators revoked nine of 48 social equity permits awarded in an initial round after

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Missouri cannabis regulators recalled more than 23,000 marijuana products from several brands on Tuesday, saying they were not properly tested by Fulton, Missouri-based lab ClearWater Science.

The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) said it recalled the products because they were not “compliantly” tested, so the agency could not verify whether they meet state health and safety requirements.

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The DCR said it hasn’t received any reports of adverse effects; people who believe they might be having an adverse reaction should seek medical attention.

Patients and consumers should stop using the recalled products and either dispose of them or return them to the dispensary where they were purchased.

About a month ago, the DCR issued a series of recalls for more than 132,000

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Initiatives to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska and set up a regulated MMJ market qualified for the November ballot on Friday, just hours after complications threatening the effort appeared.

Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen certified the efforts of Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana on Friday, the same day prosecutors announced charges against Michael Egbert, a Grand Island man involved in the petition, for allegedly falsifying signatures.

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Nebraska is one of a dwindling handful of states without any regulated marijuana program.

On Thursday, former state Sen. John Kuehn, a co-founder of the anti-legalization organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana, filed a lawsuit to stop Even from certifying two separate measures:

Ballot measure 437, Nebraska Medical Cannabis Patient Protection, to legalize medical marijuana. Ballot

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