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TexasTowelie

(122,514 posts)
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 05:49 AM Oct 2021

Judge blocks residency rule for Missouri medical marijuana licenses

A federal judge last week permanently blocked Missouri from enforcing a requirement that medical marijuana licenses go to businesses owned by residents of the state.

Following a bench trial Thursday, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey agreed to grant a permanent injunction. Her written order has not yet been filed. News of the injunction was first reported by the cannabis newsletter GrownIn.

Laughrey granted a temporary injunction against the requirement in June in response to a 2020 lawsuit filed by Mark Toigo, a marijuana investor from Pennsylvania and minority owner in a Missouri business awarded several licenses.

A constitutional amendment approved by voters in 2018 that legalized medical marijuana requires facilities to be “majority owned by natural persons who have been citizens of the state of Missouri for at least one year prior to the application.”

Read more: https://www.thepitchkc.com/judge-blocks-residency-rule-for-missouri-medical-marijuana-licenses/

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Judge blocks residency rule for Missouri medical marijuana licenses (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2021 OP
How does a federal judge regulate an industry that is illegal under federal law? Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #1
Because rich investors in illegal states need access to pot profits... sanatanadharma Oct 2021 #2

Midnight Writer

(24,506 posts)
1. How does a federal judge regulate an industry that is illegal under federal law?
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 07:50 AM
Oct 2021

Isn't that like a Federal judge telling moonshiners how to run their business?

It seems like if the Federal government outlaws this business, then it doesn't have jurisdiction to regulate it.

sanatanadharma

(4,074 posts)
2. Because rich investors in illegal states need access to pot profits...
Fri Oct 15, 2021, 08:16 AM
Oct 2021

Because rich investors in illegal states need access to pot profits from other states.

When pot becomes 'big-new-tobacco' the world will change and people will finally begin dying from pot.

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