Missouri is set to become the latest red state to launch recreational cannabis sales, with developments no doubt drawing the attention of marijuana operators and voters in neighboring Oklahoma, which will hold a special election next month on whether to legalize adult use.
Recreational marijuana sales could start as early as Friday in Missouri, with medical dispensaries awaiting the green light from state regulators to expand into adult-use retail.
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The newly minted Midwestern market is expected to generate more than half-a-billion dollars in sales in its first year.
Its rollout comes a year after Montana began adult-use marijuana sales.
Missouri, like Montana and Oklahoma, has a Republican trifecta where the GOP controls the governorship and both chambers of the legislature.
Missouri adult-use operators expect to draw customers from across the heartland and into the South.
That’s because Missouri holds the rare distinction of bordering eight states,
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