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‘Highway to Hemp’: Fledgling Industry Struggles to Take Root

By | November 4, 2021 | 0
Early in harvest season, Luke Poindexter walked the fields to cherry pick the prettiest hemp buds to sell as smokable CBD flower.

Growing industrial hemp has proven riskier and more difficult than many farmers in Kansas and Missouri initially expected.

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Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Sought Records from Missouri Medical Marijuana Regulators

By | November 3, 2021 | 0
Man rolling a joint of medical marijuana.

Twice last year a federal grand jury demanded the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services turn over records pertaining to the medical marijuana program.

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How a Meatpacking Plant Changed One Kansas Town 40 Years Ago and Left a Colorado Community Behind

By | October 27, 2021 | 0
Local government officials and meatpacking executives shovel dirt at the groundbreaking of the meatpacking plant just outside Garden City in 1979.

Four decades ago, a town in Kansas and a town in Colorado competed to become home to a giant meatpacking plant that, at the time, was the largest of its kind in the world. Here’s what has happened to them since.

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Remembering Missouri’s ‘Woodstock’: Star-Studded 1974 Ozark Music Festival in Sedalia Subject of Film

By | August 26, 2021 | 10

During the summer of 1974, Missouri staged a ‘Woodstock’ of its own. The Ozark Music Festival is now the subject of a documentary.

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Activists Renew Push to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Missouri

By | July 15, 2021 | 0
Cannabis growing facilities

Cannabis activists have filed initiative petitions seeking to amend Missouri’s constitution to allow “adult use of cannabis.”

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