Out & About in Missouri !
A History of The Faces of the Missouri Cannabis Industry
All photos contributed
▲ The first MoCannTrade Meet Ups were held in January 2019 . The association of business owners and professionals proactively work together to build a successful , safe , and compliant medical and adult-use cannabis industry . Meet Ups with full-house crowds were held in St . Louis , Columbia ( shown here with Josh Mitchem , the CEO of Clovr , speaking ), Kansas City , and Springfield . Meet Ups continue quarterly to this day .
▲ Tyler Morgan , up to his ears in a hemp field . Morgan is known as the “ Hemp Godfather ” for teaching hemp farmers to save Mother Earth and fight for space within the Missouri CBD Industry . He was also featured on our September 2022 cover . Morgan spent countless hours teaching Missouri farmers all there is to know about hemp farming and how it ’ s the path to saving Mother Earth . Will Missouri farmers continue the path ?
▲ Kansas City , MO , Mayor Lucas joined Clayton Stallings on The EVOLUTION Magazine ’ s Home Grow Series livestream on July 9 , 2020 , to announce the celebratory news of Kansas City officially removing marijuana from the city code of ordinances . Mayor Lucas said , “ One of the ways we improve police-community relations is by eliminating laws that for too long have led to negative interactions , arrests , convictions , and disproportionate rates of incarceration of Black men and Black women .” To our amazement –– he signed the new city ordinance into law live on our show .
Clayton at newly opened dispensaries in June 2021 for selfies and magazine distribution . Today , the magazine is available at dispensaries across Missouri .
14 June 2024
▲ The EVOLUTION Magazine cover of the November 2020 issue featured photos of Missouri ’ s very first dispensaries opening . It was a historic issue and time for the new Missouri medical cannabis industry and patients .
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