June GSTL NORML Chapter Meeting

Join us Monday, June 11, 2018 at 7:00 pm for our monthly chapter meeting. We have a special guest speaker hailing from Colorado, John Bolsenga. John is a cultivator and part of a growing trend of cannabis industry professionals looking to the Show-Me state in anticipation of passage of medical marijuana this November.

Find out what is attracting people to Missouri and how an influx of cannabis professionals could accelerate our future fledgling medical cannabis industry. This will be a meeting you won't want to miss.

Event: June 2018 Greater St. Louis NORML Chapter Meeting
Address: CJ Muggs Webster (Webster Groves, MO), 101 W Lockwood Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119
Date: Monday, June 11, 2018
Time: Starts at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Cost: FREE. (Donations accepted.) Everyone is invited.

Missouri Cannabis Spring Conference
St. Charles, MO, June 15-16, 2018

This Friday night, and all day Saturday, cannabis supporters across Missouri will be coming to St. Louis. The Saturday conference will be held in the St. Charles Opera House.

Location: Grand Opera House Banquet Center, 311 N Main St., St. Charles, MO 63301
Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Cost: Suggested Donation $10.00

This will be the most important conference to date. New Approach Missouri (NAM) has successfully submitted 372,483 signatures to put medical marijuana on the November 6, 2018 Missouri ballot.

Find out what happens next. NAM officials will reveal a critical phase of their campaign to bring medical cannabis relief to Missouri.

Friday, June 15, 2018 an evening fundraising event to benefit the New Approach Missouri Medical Marijuana Initiative campaign will take place at Propaganda, 2732 Cherokee Street, in St. Louis. Tickets are $100 each and available through NAM here.

On Saturday, June 16, 2018, our keynote speakers will be Paul Armentano, national Deputy Director of NORML, one of the nation’s foremost experts on the science of medical marijuana, and Michael A. Wolff, former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice, former Dean, and Professor Emeritus of the St. Louis University Law School.

Along with these outstanding speakers, we'll hear from City of St. Louis Board of Alderman Presidential Candidate Megan Ellyia Green discussing our marijuana legalization initiative for St. Louis. We'll have a discussion panel of experts on medical marijuana.

Sign up to volunteer as a conference worker here. Volunteer.

Saturday Evening Conference Afterparty

Saturday evening at 5:30 pm in the St. Charles Opera House, we’ll have a fundraising party to benefit Missouri NORML.

Your $25.00 admission includes hardy appetizers and a cash bar. There will be a fun auction to benefit Missouri NORML and Show-Me Cannabis. The benefit auction has always been the highlight of the evening in years past. Join with the conference speakers for a delightful evening of socializing. We're still accepting donated items. Bring your items to the auction.

Conference and Afterparty Location: Grand Opera House Banquet Center, 311 N Main St, St Charles, MO 63301
Time: 5:30 pm, after the conference ends.
Cost: $25.00 per person, ticket required for entry (available online or at the event)

Buy your tickets in advance. We will have them waiting for you at the conference welcome table.

Hemp Returns to Missouri

Hours before resigning the Governorship, Eric Greitens signed into law HB 2034 legalizing Industrial Hemp in Missouri. This act creates an industrial hemp agricultural pilot program to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture.

Under the 2014 Farm Bill, states can only study the growth, cultivation, processing, feeding, and marketing of industrial hemp when coupled with an institute of higher learning or certified research program. It will become effective on August 28, 2018.

Missouri food products shall not be considered adulterated if the food contains industrial hemp, or an industrial hemp commodity or product. This could open the door for commercialized sales of hemp oil in Missouri!

Billboard Campaigns Generate Unprecedented Response

Greater St. Louis NORML Board of Directors has agreed to continue our public media campaign to promote medical marijuana awareness throughout the St. Louis metro area.

Our message, “States that legalize medical marijuana reduce opioid deaths by 25%”, was posted on our newest digital billboard launched on May 22, 2018. Help us continue our campaign with a donation.

Upcoming Events

June 11, 2018 – GSTL NORML June Chapter Meeting. Monday, June 11, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, at at CJ Muggs Webster (Webster Groves, MO) 101 W Lockwood Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119.

June 16, 2018 – NORML/Show-Me Cannabis Conference. A statewide conference on cannabis in St. Louis at the Grand Opera House Banquet Center, 311 N Main St., St. Charles, MO 63301. Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

June 16, 2018 – St. Charles Pride Festival June 16, 11:00 am at Frontier Park, St. Charles, Missouri

June 23, 2018 – Tower Grove Pride Festival. New location in Tower Grove Park. Bigger and better. We'll need volunteers to help with booth operation. Lots of fun for everyone!