Heartland dispensary reacts to Trumps marijuana reclassification – KFVS12
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – A Heartland dispensary expects increased foot traffic after President Trump signed an executive order Thursday reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule One to Schedule Three substance.
The order shifts marijuana from the same classification as heroin to a category similar to ketamine.
Madison Snyder, who operates Grateful Headz dispensary in Cape Girardeau, said the stigma surrounding marijuana has kept some customers away for years.
“It should have never been classified with any other hard drugs like that,” Snyder said. “It’s a plant that we use to medicate and it’s herbal and safe and natural.”
Snyder said the reclassification could bring in customers who previously avoided dispensaries.
“I do think a different demographic will start coming through just because it might be not your typical person that would come in here, just someone who might have not used marijuana before, but now that they’ve went to the doctor and got educated, now they’re more familiar with it,” She continued.
Jackson McGraw, a budtender at the dispensary, said the change will help attract older customers dealing with chronic pain.
“I think that’ll definitely help our legitimacy and it will help us bring in a lot more older people with chronic pain that have been looking at other avenues,” McGraw said.
Missouri voters legalized marijuana in 2022, but federal restrictions continued to create hurdles for local dispensaries. Snyder said the federal change would make running her business easier and allow her to sell new products.
“More people might be shopping with me because they might be more educated on the full spectrum products that I’ll be able to sell now,” Snyder said.
Those full spectrum products will appear in unexpected places, according to Snyder.
“CBD pain cream, full spectrum supplements will all be sold like from the pharmacies now,” Snyder said. “So I just think it’s a big step for marijuana.”
McGraw said the reclassification opens doors for research and product development that federal law previously blocked.
“The research aspect of it will open up a lot of new products for us to get in because it’ll open up new uses for CBD and marijuana that have never been seen before because there’s all new funding,” McGraw said.
The executive order directs the attorney general to expedite the process, but there is no firm timeline on when that might happen.
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