Recreational Marijuana

St. Louis could lose more than $500,000 in revenue and won't be able to begin collecting until early 2024 after the city didn't charge a 3% tax for recreational marijuana last month.

The three cities join more than 40 others and four counties in the St. Louis area to pass a 3% sales tax on recreational marijuana.

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?

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.

Jeff Rehberger Jr., a Chicago businessman from Highland, runs Lucky Lincoln Gaming. In the Metro East, the company operates at 10 locations. The three complaints lodged against Rehberger contain a total of 21 counts.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the recreational marijuana law nearly four years ago. It contained language that made hundreds of thousands of people eligible to have marijuana-related charges removed from their records.

Missouri regulators listed ZIP codes that qualify as having historic incarceration rates for marijuana offenses in the new cannabis rules. None are in north St. Louis where about half of the state’s Black population resides.

Missouri’s emerging marijuana industry surpasses $1 billion in sales

St. Louis and St. Louis County are among the jurisdictions where voters approved the tax, but there are questions about the scope of countywide marijuana taxes.

The newly-created position will work to ensure social and economic equity requirements of Missouri’s new marijuana law are met