Cannabis

Early in harvest season, Luke Poindexter walked the fields to cherry pick the prettiest hemp buds to sell as smokable CBD flower.

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

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

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Man rolling a joint of medical marijuana.

Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Sought Records from Missouri Medical Marijuana Regulators

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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Local government officials and meatpacking executives shovel dirt at the groundbreaking of the meatpacking plant just outside Garden City in 1979.

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

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

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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Cannabis growing facilities

Activists Renew Push to Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Missouri

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

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