JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri marijuana regulators acquired two federal grand jury subpoenas final fall, virtually a 12 months after authorities issued an preliminary demand for data from the state.
The primary demand for data, issued in November 2019, directs the Division of Well being and Senior Providers to supply “any and all data pertaining to medical marijuana purposes” for 4 people. Their names are redacted from the doc.
The second subpoena, dated Sept. 9, 2020, requires marijuana regulators to supply data, however what the data pertain to is redacted from the doc.
“Pursuant to an official legal investigation being carried out by the federal grand jury for the Western District of Missouri, your workplace has acquired a subpoena requiring the manufacturing of sure data,” stated Michael S. Oliver, assistant U.S. Lawyer, in a Sept. 9, 2020, letter to the DHSS.
A 3rd subpoena, dated Sept. 11, 2020, calls for extra data from the Part for Medical Marijuana Regulation, in line with paperwork obtained by an open data request. Info on these data can be redacted.
All three subpoenas have been issued by the U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Missouri.
The feds haven’t recognized any targets.
