IndustryDevelopments | International & State Missouri A federal judge in Missouri struck down the state's residency requirement for medical marijuana businesses, opening the fast-growing market to out-of-state operators. The permanent injunction barring the state from enforcing the residency requirement wasn't a surprise because Judge Nanette Laughrey had issued a similar preliminary injunction in June, writing that the state had failed to meet the legal burden of showing how the residency requirement would achieve its goal of preventing marijuana from being trafficked out of state. The Missouri residency rule required that medical marijuana businesses be at least 51% owned by state residents. It had defined residents as those who had lived in Missouri for at least one year. Nevada Recreational marijuana sales in Nevada surpassed the $1 billion mark for fiscal year 2021, according to data from the state. The Nevada Department of Taxation said adult-use retailers in Nevada brought in $1,003,467,655 in taxable sales. The bulk of those sales were in Clark County, home of Las Vegas. The 2021 fiscal year ran from July 2020 until June 2021. 34 Marijuana Business Magazine | November-December 2021https://www.ledestar.com/