By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
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Missouri voters legalized recreational marijuana four years ago. But that didn't mean anyone could sell intoxicating cannabis products anywhere.
For years, hemp businesses operated outside the state's tightly regulated marijuana market. That changed Thursday, when new restrictions took effect.
Supporters call it consumer protection. Business owners see threatened livelihoods and years of investment wiped out.
Rebecca Rivas reports on the frantic final days of sales, including steep discounts, shuttered shops and an unusual Veterans Day giveaway.
(Rebecca Rivas/Missouri Independent)
by Rebecca Rivas
Retailers offered steep discounts and gave away products as a state law pushed much of the hemp-derived THC market out of unlicensed stores.
(Dana DiFilippo/New Jersey Monitor)
by Jana Rose Schleis
Utility company Ameren has received the green light to add a new-to-Missouri type of infrastructure to the electric grid: batteries.
(Jim Neuger/ Maine Morning Star)
COMMENTARY
by Rich Lamb
On Election Day, we’re basically opening thousands of small businesses across each state, all at the same time, asking them to serve the public.
MISSOURI ON THE RECORD
On this week’s Missouri on the Record, Rudi Keller examines how Democrats shattered Republican supermajorities, where the GOP lost ground and what the results could mean for Missouri’s political future.
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