La Grange, MO Cannabis Regulations: Buffer Zones (2026)

Section 601.020.B of the La Grange City Code sets proximity limits for the four types of medical marijuana facilities defined in Section 601.010: dispensary, cultivation, marijuana-infused products manufacturing, and testing facilities. A dispensary carries no required distance (zero feet) from an elementary or secondary school, day care, church, or other building regularly used for religious worship, but cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities, and any combination of these uses, must stay at least 300 feet away. The City measures this distance in a straight line from the nearest point on the facility's property line to the nearest point on the protected use's property line, ignoring any intervening buildings or structures.

The ordinance includes a grandfather clause: if a school, day care or church later locates within the buffer of an already-operating facility, the existing facility may remain in place rather than being forced to relocate or close. Section 601.020.A separately requires every facility to stay in compliance with Article XVI, Section 1 of the Missouri Constitution, the 2018 amendment that created the state medical marijuana program. Because Chapter 601 contains no penalty clause of its own, a proven violation of the buffer requirement falls under the City's general penalty in Section 100.220: a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $1,000, up to three months in jail, or both, with each day of continuing violation charged as a separate offense.

La Grange has not amended this chapter to address recreational marijuana; only medical marijuana facility siting is addressed in the code as provided to this office.