The Missouri Auditor is investigating the state’s adult-use and medical hashish packages to ensure they are working legally, KCTV studies. Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick’s workplace mentioned the evaluate will cowl a five-year interval from 2018 by way of June 30, 2023.
Voters authorized a constitutional modification to legalize medical hashish in November 2018 and one other to legalize adult-use hashish in 2022.
“The medical and leisure marijuana packages created by these amendments are chargeable for establishing a brand new trade in our state which has already generated greater than $1 billion in gross sales. The foundations and laws promulgated for these packages govern lots of of marijuana services all throughout Missouri that domesticate and promote hashish merchandise to lots of of 1000’s of Missourians every year. Contemplating the large affect they’ve had on our state, it’s necessary that we conduct an intensive evaluation of those packages to make sure they’re working in a fashion that’s environment friendly, accountable, and clear.” — Fitzpatrick in a press release to KCTV
Fitzpatrick famous that the hashish legalization amendments “signify among the most substantial modifications” to the state’s structure “in current reminiscence” and “now make up greater than one-fifth of the language” within the state structure.
The audit comes because the state is making ready to license its first spherical of microbusiness licenses and following the recall of greater than 63,000 merchandise that weren’t tracked within the state’s seed-to-sale stock system.
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