The ruling reverses an earlier lower court decision, but the case could be appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court.

A new court ruling could mean consumers of marijuana products will be paying less for those products. On Tuesday, an appellate court in the Eastern Missouri District ruled cities and counties can’t stack taxes on top of each other.

A panel of Missouri appellate judges ruled Tuesday that the constitution’s “plain, unambiguous” language means cities and counties cannot stack marijuana sales taxes. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District’s decision reversed a lower court’s ruling in May that allowed both Florissant and St.

Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected] JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis and St. Charles counties cannot add their own tax on the sale of marijuana on top of local municipal sales taxes, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

After an appellate court ruled St. Charles and St. Louis counties could not stack their own marijuana sales tax on top of municipal sales taxes, the top elected official in St. Charles County said they’ll take the fight to the state supreme court.