Sales of products containing intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids may resume in Missouri after a top state official indicated a change in enforcement priorities.

That move defies an order from Missouri Gov. Mike Parson that led the state Department of Health & Senior Services (DHSS) to use state food law as the legal basis for a wide-ranging embargo on intoxicating hemp products.

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Parson issued the order after Missouri’s secretary of state Jay Ashcroft rejected the governor’s ban of intoxicating hemp-derived products in an Aug. 1 executive order.

But that embargo is now over, the DHSS’ general counsel, Richard Moore, wrote in a Sept. 17 letter to the Missouri Hemp Trade Association, the Columbia Missourian reported.

According to Moore, Missouri regulators now will focus their attention on

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Massachusetts-based Black Harbor Group is positioned to purchase Fine Fettle, a licensed cannabis cultivator and manufacturer located on Martha’s Vineyard in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

The Select Board of West Tisbury unanimously approved the change of ownership for Fine Fettle, which earlier this year announced it would permanently close “no later than September,” according to the Vineyard Gazette.

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The Select Board of West Tisbury agreed to the transfer of ownership with the stipulation that Fine Fettle address lighting concerns within six months, the Gazette reported.

Black Harbor Group, which was represented by an attorney at the Select Board meeting, was registered as a limited liability company in July, according to public records.

Fine Fettle’s closure earlier this year prompted a lawsuit that led

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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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