Slave-Owning Family Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers who owned six slaves. When the Civil War came, young Jesse watched ...

Legislation allowing low-dose intoxicating hemp drinks to continue to be sold in grocery and liquor stores won the approval of committees in both the Missouri House and Senate this week.

The battle over hemp-derived drugs has already sparked up again at the Missouri Capitol. A Missouri Senate Committee heard a bill Wednesday that would reclassify all products with intoxicating ...

(KFVS) - Some Missouri lawmakers are pushing to regulate hemp products in the same way the ... “So, they would be breaking both civil and criminal laws if they were doing that.” ...

“We are working through and very excited about the possibility of developing a carve out for low-THC hemp drinks,” said Tom Robbins, a lobbyist for the Missouri Cannabis Trade Association ...

Legislation allowing low-dose intoxicating hemp drinks to continue to be sold in grocery and liquor stores won the approval of committees in both the Missouri House and Senate this week.

Every time Missouri lawmakers have proposed legislation to essentially ban intoxicating-hemp products in the last few years, the hemp industry has mounted a united opposition to stop them.