Cannabis Regulations in Missouri (2026)

Missouri Constitution Article XIV grants registered adults age 21 and over the right to cultivate up to six flowering…

Growing cannabis at home is legal in Clay County for adults 21 and over who hold a $100 state registration card. The…

Missouri legalized recreational marijuana through Amendment 3 in November 2022, which permits adults 21 and older to…

Adults 21 and older in Lee's Summit may grow up to six flowering, six nonflowering, and six clone marijuana plants with…

Missouri Article XIV authorizes state-licensed marijuana dispensaries and limits local control to non-prohibitive…

A Lee's Summit dispensary needs a state DHSS license and a city marijuana dispensary business license, must sit in an…

Columbia, Missouri has not opted out of marijuana licensing: dispensaries are permitted in the M-C, M-DT, and IG zoning…

Independence allows marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities only as conditional uses in C-2, C-3 and I-1…

Kirkwood confines marijuana dispensaries to a special use permit in the B-3 District, with cultivation, infused-product…

O'Fallon's Zoning Code limits the entire city to ten marijuana dispensary facilities and shuts the Downtown Overlay…

St. Charles County has not opted out of hosting marijuana facilities: it taxes adult-use sales at 3% under § 140.100…

Cass County Code § 400.261 controls where marijuana businesses, including dispensaries, cultivation and processing…

Cannabis dispensaries are legal and operating in Clay County, licensed by the state. Local governments can regulate…

Florissant's zoning code confines licensed marijuana businesses to specific commercial and industrial districts rather…

Unincorporated Greene County allows medical marijuana dispensaries only in C-1, C-2, C-3, M-1 and M-2 zones, with…

Marijuana cultivation, dispensary, manufacturing and testing facilities are allowed in specific unincorporated Jackson…

Kansas City confines licensed marijuana dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing and testing facilities to zoning…

Springfield permits marijuana cultivation, wholesale, testing, and manufacturing facilities as of-right uses in its…

St. Louis confines marijuana dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, and testing facilities to its commercial and…

St. Louis County has not opted out of marijuana dispensaries: its zoning code lists them as a by-right permitted use in…

Florissant's zoning code keeps licensed marijuana facilities away from sensitive uses with two different buffers: a…

Marijuana facilities in Independence can't locate within 1,000 feet of an existing school, day care, or church…

Kansas City requires marijuana facilities to sit 1,000 feet from schools, 300 feet from churches and daycares, and…

Kirkwood requires marijuana facilities to sit at least 1,000 feet from a church, school or child day-care center, and…

O'Fallon keeps marijuana cultivation, manufacturing and dispensary facilities at least 750 feet from any existing…

St. Charles County keeps medical marijuana facilities a minimum of 1,000 feet from churches, schools, residential…

Cass County Code § 400.261(B)(1) keeps new medical and marijuana facilities at least 1,000 feet from any then-existing…

Columbia, Missouri bars marijuana facilities within 500 feet of a school, day care center, or church.

Greene County requires medical marijuana facilities to sit at least 1,000 feet from schools, daycares, and churches…

Unincorporated Jackson County limits medical marijuana cultivation, dispensary, manufacturing and testing facilities to…

Springfield bars new marijuana and medical marijuana facilities from siting within 1,000 feet of an existing elementary…

Missouri requires comprehensive cannabis facilities to be at least 1,000 feet from schools, daycares, and churches…

A marijuana dispensary in unincorporated St. Louis County must clear two hard buffers to open as a permitted use: 1,000…

Missouri's Constitution lets any adult twenty-one or older register with the Department of Health and Senior Services…