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Now that cannabis is fully legal for adults, Missouri’s third-largest city has 10 licensed marijuana dispensaries. Meanwhile, five of them haven’t yet paid sales taxes they owe for the month of March.

A total of 1,600 applicants applied through a random lottery, and only 48 were selected.

The dispensary — in the small town of Cassville — was one of the first to open in the state.

A company is accused of bringing illegal marijuana product into the Missouri market and obstructing the state’s investigation by staging a robbery at its facility.

The recall is for manufactured products sold to dispensaries and manufacturers by infused product manufacturer Delta Extraction, LLC.

Sales taxes for recreational marijuana will be on the ballot in many places across the Ozarks on Tuesday.

State regulators say “potential product safety concerns” were an issue in the Missouri marijuana industry in recent days.

On Monday Springfield City Council voted 9-to-zero to ask city voters at a future election whether they want to approve a 3-percent sales tax on recreational marijuana.

Springfield City Council is poised to ask voters to approve a 3-percent sales tax on recreational marijuana later this summer.

Three days before the 4/20 cannabis holiday, all nine members of Springfield City Council voted to approve a new ordinance governing recreational marijuana. This comes after Missouri voters legalized the plant in a statewide election last November. Here's what cannabis-users — and the rest of us — should know about Springfield’s new law.