The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that state cannabis regulators were within their authority to deny a cultivation business license to a company that failed to include proper paperwork with its application.
Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow cannabis in 2019. The company was denied when the state said it didn't include a certification of good standing from the Missouri Secretary of State's office in its application.
However, the company argues state rules require the Division of Cannabis Regulation to specify what information is lacking in an application in a letter — which the state didn't do before it denied Mo Cann Do's license.
So the company filed an appeal — one of more than 800 appeals filed after the state-imposed caps on the number of cannabis business licenses it would award. After losing at the Administrative Hearing Commission and circuit court levels, Mo Cann Do won in the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District in February 2023.
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