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Missouri House votes to require disclosure of medical marijuana ownership records • Missouri Independent
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The Missouri Home voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to require state regulators to show over possession data for companies granted medical marijuana licenses to legislative oversight committees.
Democratic Rep. Peter Merideth of St. Louis added the transparency necessities as an modification to an area authorities invoice authorized by the Senate earlier this yr. After a short debate the place nobody spoke in opposition, the modification was authorized 128-6.
The underlying invoice, which incorporates quite a few different Home amendments, was authorized and now heads again to the Senate. The legislative session ends at 6 p.m. Friday.
Each Republican and Democratic lawmakers argued Tuesday that the Division of Well being and Senior Service’s resolution to deem possession information confidential has brought on issues in offering oversight of the medical marijuana program. And that downside will solely worsen, they contend, if a leisure marijuana poll measure wins voter approval this fall.
“If we’ve a scenario the place the entire entities that bought licenses below this current program have a bonus in a much bigger market, we’ve to proceed doing actual oversight to ensure that they had been working correctly below the present constitutional tips,” Merideth mentioned, pointing to provisions within the proposed poll measure that guarantee present medical marijuana license holders get the preliminary batch of leisure licenses.
Evaluation by The Unbiased and the Missourian final yr of 192 dispensary licenses issued by the state discovered a number of cases the place a single entity was linked to greater than 5 dispensary licenses.
In line with the structure, the state can’t challenge greater than 5 dispensary licenses to any entity below considerably frequent management, possession or administration. However as a result of DHSS has steadfastly withheld any possession details about license holders from public disclosure, it’s unimaginable to find out who owns what.
That is a kind of conditions with unusual bedfellows, people on reverse ends of the spectrum that usually do not agree with one another. However we agree that this as a accountable factor to do.
– Rep. Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis
The Home tried so as to add the the same transparency modification to laws final yr however was compelled to take away it below risk of veto by Gov. Mike Parson.
“I don’t agree with the gentleman from St. Louis Metropolis on absolutely anything,” mentioned state Rep. Ben Baker, R-Neosho, mentioned of Merideth. “However that is one thing the place I do… it’s a very good modification that can deliver somewhat bit extra oversight and transparency to this program.”
The state has justified withholding data from public disclosure by pointing to a portion of the medical marijuana constitutional modification adopted by voters in 2018 that claims the division shall “keep the confidentiality of stories or different data obtained from an applicant or licensee containing any individualized information, data, or information associated to the licensee or its operation… .”
In February, the Missouri Supreme Courtroom ordered the state to show over sure medical marijuana software data that it had argued was confidential to an organization interesting a denied license.
Medical marijuana immediately turned large enterprise in Missouri after voters handed a constitutional modification permitting it in 2018, and competitors for licenses turned fierce when the state capped the quantity it will challenge.
The Missouri Home launched an investigation into the licensing course of in early 2020, fueled by widespread stories of irregularities in how license functions had been scored and allegations that conflicts of curiosity inside DHSS and a non-public firm employed to attain functions could have tainted the method.
Legislative criticism of the medical marijuana program, particularly the state’s resolution to cap that variety of licenses issued to develop and promote product, have bubbled up periodically all through the session.
In the meantime, rumblings of an FBI investigation across the medical marijuana trade have swirled.
In November 2020, the pinnacle of Missouri’s medical marijuana program testified below oath {that a} federal grand jury subpoena his company obtained was linked to an FBI investigation in Independence.
Missouri’s medical marijuana regulators obtained two extra federal grand jury subpoenas in 2020, with every redacted earlier than being turned over to the media on the request of the federal authorities to obfuscate the information being sought by regulation enforcement.
A Kansas Metropolis-area businessman testified in a deposition that he was questioned by federal regulation enforcement final about medical marijuana licensing in Missouri and utility contracts in Independence — an indication {that a} doubtlessly wide-ranging public corruption probe could also be ongoing.
“That is a kind of conditions with unusual bedfellows, people on reverse ends of the spectrum that usually don’t agree with one another,” Merideth mentioned. “However we agree that this as a accountable factor to do.”
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U.S. Open Qualifier Jadeon Carter (2025) Sends Verbal Commitment to Missouri
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Jadeon Carter from Lincoln, Nebraska, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Missouri for the 2025-26 school year and beyond.
“I chose Missouri because of the academic resources and the athletic resources they provide. The team culture makes it feel like home and all of the staff and swimmers are very supportive of me.”
Carter is a rising senior at Lincoln East High School. He swims year-round with Lincoln Select Swimming and is a Winter U.S. Open qualifier in the 200 backstroke. In high school swimming, he is the reigning Nebraska state champion in the 200 free (1:41.20) and 500 free (4:35.12). He holds school records in the 200 fre, 500 free, and 200 free relay, and he made the Academic All-Conference and Athletic All-Conference state teams.
In club swimming, Carter holds the Midwestern Swimming LSC record in the boys’ 13-14 500 free. This summer, he clocked a handful of LCM best times at Columbia Sectionals, placing 13th in the 200 free (1:58.08, PB), 13th in the 400 free (4:11.33), 7th in the 800 free (8:36.40), 16th in the 100 back (59.76 in prelims, PB), 6th in the 200 back (2:06.44, PB), and 12th in the 200 IM (2:12.90, PB). Two weeks later he competed at Midwestern Swimming Long Course Championships, where he won the 200/400/1500 free, 200 back, and 200 IM, and was runner-up in the 100 back. He picked up new times in the 100 free (55.39), 1500 free (16:47.07), and (50 back (29.33).
Best SCY times:
- 200 free – 1:41.20
- 500 free – 4:34.01
- 1000 free – 9:38.10
- 200 back – 1:50.43
- 100 back – 52.41
Carter will join the Tigers’ class of 2029 with fellow verbal commits Drew Ploof, Ben Madson, and Sebastian Gonzalez Barboza. Mizzou finished 8th out of 10 teams in the men’s meet at the 2024 SEC Championships.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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