When Missouri voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2022, the constitutional amendment they approved carried forward a limit meant to prevent any single company from controlling too much of the market.
But one key phrase from the state’s medical marijuana law was gone.
The constitution’s medical marijuana provision barred the state from issuing more than five dispensary licenses to any entity under “substantially common control, ownership, or management.” The recreational marijuana amendment instead says an entity may not own more than 10% of total dispensary licenses, dropping the language covering common control and management…