Missouri promised automatic marijuana expungements. Some records may remain uncleared

By: Rebecca Rivas

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 1,857

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Missouri courts were supposed to automatically erase eligible marijuana misdemeanors from criminal records by June 8, 2023, six months after voters legalized recreational marijuana.

But in a recent St. Louis case, the Missouri State Highway Patrol told an appellate court that “hundreds of thousands” of marijuana offenses may still exist on criminal records that should have been cleared.

The patrol offered no evidence to back up that estimate, the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern …

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