June 24, 2021 Blogs

Missouri dismissed by the court

Missouri’s residency requirement for hemp companies was dismissed by the court

A federal judge in Missouri ruled in favor of a Pennsylvania investor who sued the state’s medical hemp regulators over a residency requirement for MMJ business owners.

The Missouri rule required that medical marijuana businesses be at least 51% owned by state residents, defined as those who had lived in Missouri for at least one year.

Mark Toigo’s lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services argued that the residency rule violated the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, among other things.

According to legal-news outlet Law360, U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey granted a preliminary injunction against the rule, saying “it was unclear how Missouri’s policies accomplished their purported goal of keeping medical hemp from being trafficked out of state.”

The judge acknowledged that the Missouri regulator had a legitimate interest in preventing medical marijuana from being diverted to the illicit market, but she wrote that the goal could be accomplished without discriminating against out-of-state business owners, Law360 reported.

Residency requirements for hemp business ownership have faced pushback across the United States.

Oregon nixed its residency requirement in 2016, as did Colorado in 2019 and Maine in 2020.

On the other hand, a federal judge recently threw out a lawsuit against a residency requirement in Oklahoma.

Legal medical marijuana sales launched in Missouri in October 2020 and approached $25 million as of March.

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