The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments in a case cannabis regulators say could force them to issue "dozens" of new licenses to grow, sell, and distribute cannabis products above the state's self-imposed caps.
Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow cannabis in 2019. The company was denied when the state said it didn't include a certification of good standing from the Missouri Secretary of State's office in its application.
However, the company argues that state rules require the Division of Cannabis Regulation to specify what information is lacking in an application in a letter — which the state didn't do before it denied Mo Cann Do's license.
So the company appealed its denied license — one of more than 800 appeals filed after the state imposed caps on the number of cannabis business licenses it would award. After losing at the Administrative Hearing Commission and circuit court levels, Mo Cann Do won in the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District in February 2023.
The court ordered Missouri to award the company a cannabis cultivation facility license.
Read more at missouriindependent.com