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Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a bill Thursday that will take all intoxicating hemp products off the shelves starting Nov. 12 — including THC seltzers currently sold in bars and grocery stores. The legislation largely aligns state law with the upcoming federal ban that Congress approved in November. “If you take the House and Senate […]

A St. Louis smoke shop has agreed to stop selling highly potent THC edibles packaged to mimic popular candy, after Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway sued the store for alleged violations of state consumer-protection laws. Hanaway announced Wednesday that Pressure STL, located just south of downtown St. Louis, will immediately halt operations and destroy all […]

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway has ordered 33 stores to stop selling intoxicating hemp products, but many shop owners say the products remain legal under federal law and plan to keep selling them until new federal restrictions take effect Nov. 12. They also question the basis for Hanaway’s crackdown, which relies heavily on lab results […]

Gov. Mike Kehoe’s office received 10,000 handwritten letters Tuesday asking him to veto a Missouri bill that would impose a statewide ban on intoxicating hemp products. The letters, gathered in just 10 days, came from small-business owners, farmers and customers across Missouri who say the legislation could wipe out the state’s hemp industry — even […]

A bill heading to Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk would take all intoxicating hemp products off the shelves starting Nov. 12 — including THC seltzers currently sold in bars and grocery stores — aligning state law with an upcoming federal ban. If Congress reverses course and decides to allow the sale of these products, Missouri […]

After nine hours of debate over competing proposals to ban intoxicating hemp products, the Missouri Senate finally approved a House bill Tuesday night that would align state law with a federal ban set to take effect in November. It also includes provisions to protect marijuana consumer privacy and cannabis workers’ right to organize. It now […]

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The Missouri House approved a bill Thursday that would ban all intoxicating hemp products — things like THC seltzers or hemp-derived THC edibles currently sold at gas stations and smoke shops — beginning in November. The bill, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Dave Hinman of O’Fallon, would prohibit hemp products from containing more than 0.4 […]

A push for Missouri to immediately adopt planned federal limits on intoxicating hemp products ran into a filibuster in the state Senate Wednesday, with critics demanding any changes wait until national regulations go into effect in November. Democratic state Sen. Karla May of St. Louis led the two-hour filibuster of a bill that would immediately […]

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is suing a St. Louis smoke shop for allegedly violating state consumer-protection laws by selling highly-potent THC edibles in wrappers that mimic popular candy. It’s the attorney general’s first lawsuit against a company selling intoxicating hemp products after nearly two years of investigating more than 20 companies for potentially violating […]

People who drink cannabis beverages – that often come in cans, like beer or hard seltzers – may be consuming less alcohol, according to a recent study from University of Buffalo. More than 60% of the study’s participants who drank cannabis beverages said they had either reduced (61.5%) or stopped (1.1%) drinking alcohol as a […]