A group of politically connected marijuana growers in Missouri must destroy their cannabis products and give up business licenses as part of an agreement to resolve a dispute with the state.
An eight-page agreement, signed in May between the licensees and the director of the state’s medical marijuana program, said state regulators and the licensees reached a “compromise” over alleged regulatory violations in an effort to end legal proceedings.
The licensees in question that signed onto the agreement — Archimedes Medical Holdings, FUJM, and Holistic Health Capital — are all based in Perryville.
Archimedes Medical Holdings controls two cultivation licenses and has used the brand name Solhaus, FUJM controls one cultivation license and Holistic Health holds a manufacturing license.
Alleged issues noted in suspension orders ranged from “pervasive irregularities” that prevented the state from confirming that any product from the licensees’ three grow facilities had been properly tested to “numerous outages” on security cameras that went unreported to regulators.
Orders to suspend operations at two facilities in question also noted “employees are using and applying pesticides without proper training or proper Personal Protective Equipment.”
An order to suspend operations at one facility says, “the licensee has left medical marijuana product unattended, unsecured, and in unsanitary conditions.” [Read more at St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
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