Nine of the 48 marijuana social equity licenses issued by Missouri regulators last fall have been revoked because the applicants were deemed ineligible.
Eight of the revoked licenses were issued to out-of-state operators and one was a wholesale facility, nonprofit news outlet Missouri Independent reported, citing the state’s Division of Cannabis Regulation.
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Regulators warned last December that 11 winners of social equity licenses might have been ineligible.
One of the companies that lost its license Wednesday, Frankenstein Enemy in Columbia, worked with Michigan-based Canna Zoned MLS in obtaining its permit.
Canna Zoned allegedly submitted 104 applications and won two dispensary licenses in Missouri’s lottery for social equity permits.
Frankenstein Enemy, in a statement to the Independent, called the revocation “drastic and unjustified.”
“We
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