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Arkansans Flocking to Missouri to Purchase Legal Weed but Risk Arrest Upon Return

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Missouri is the only state surrounding Arkansas with legal recreational marijuana.

Recreational marijuana is now legal to purchase in Missouri by adults age 21 and over, living in-state or out-of-state, with just a valid government-issue photo ID. Several hundred dispensaries recently licensed by the state to sell adult-use cannabis like Flora Farms, with locations across southwest Missouri, report being patronized by a growing number of Arkansans, who are unable to purchase legal pot back home. But transporting purchases back across state lines remains a federal felony offense.

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Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for <i>Ozarks at Large.</i>