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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — James Ryan was in shock. When Missouri announced the winners of the 48 microbusiness licenses for its recreational marijuana program in early October, Ryan’s company was the first ...

The "microbusiness" marijuana licenses the state plans to issue this year and next will allow qualified small business owners to grow or sell marijuana at a smaller scale than cultivators like ...

The conversations around social equity in the Colorado cannabis industry may have started late, but a new category of business licenses could help expand diversity in this state’s pot industry. When ...

As the Missouri marijuana industry rakes in millions from recreational weed, state regulators have slowly started to roll out a program intended to help small and minority-owned businesses break into ...

Missourians voted to legalize recreational, adult-use marijuana in November. That constitutional amendment also established a framework for marijuana "microbusinesses" — business licenses intended to ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Some Missourians are scrambling right now while applying to get a Microbusiness license to open up a marijuana business in the state. The applications are only accepted for two ...

ST. LOUIS — Starting Thursday, budding entrepreneurs can apply for a marijuana microbusiness license. The idea behind these microbusiness licenses is to give back to the communities that were harmed ...