Round 2 Microbusiness License Lottery Forum

Microbusiness License Seminar
Last chance in St. Louis to attend the final Cannabis Microbusiness Licensing Informational Seminar on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Saint Louis University: Il Monastero Banquet Center, 3050 Olive Street St. Louis, MO 63103. MAP LINK. Presented by: Amendment 2 Consultants & Greater St. Louis NORML Sponsored by: dutchie, Cure8, & Temeka Group Missourians are excited and ready to get involved in the new marijuana microbusiness market. Join industry experts and leaders at this f...
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Missouri NORML’s April 15, 2023 Spring Conference

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Missouri NORML Spring 2023 Conference Missouri NORML's Spring 2023 State Conference will take place on Saturday, April 15, 2023 and will be one of the best streaming online free events about cannabis this year. Adult-use cannabis legalization will be one of the hot topics during the conference and we will discuss the Missouri 2023 legislative session. Our NORML volunteers have created an outstanding lineup of national and state speakers to cover the latest developments concerning ...
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More Than 3,500 Expungements Under Amendment 3 Have Already Happened!

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(Columbia, MO) Missouri NORML is pleased to announce that more than 5,500 Missourians have had their marijuana cases expunged from all public records only a few weeks after Article XIV, passed as Amendment 3 on the ballot, became effective on December 8, 2022. The Missouri Office of State Courts Administrator (OSCA) reported that 3,518 expungements have been granted by Missouri courts as of January 19, 2021. More expungement are in the pipeline. One week earlier a total of 2,340 exp...
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Long-Time Marijuana Law Reform Group Announces 2023 Legislative Agenda

2023 Legislative Agenda
Missouri NORML, the organization which helped to draft, place on the ballot, and pass Amendment 3, now Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution, has announced its priorities for the 2023 legislative session of the Missouri General Assembly. Prefiling of bills for the ’23 session begins Thursday, December 1. NORML has contacted several legislators some of whom have agreed to file all of NORML’s priority legislation. Others are considering signing on as co-sponsors. The legislation which ...
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St. Louis Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession and Cultivation

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Mayor Tishaura Jones signs BB132 into law. The City of St. Louis has decriminalized petty possession and cultivation of cannabis with a stroke of Mayor Tishaura Jones' pen as she placed her signature on Board Bill 132 (BB132), Monday, December 13, 2021. The measure was passed unanimously by the St. Louis Board of Alderman November 23, 2021 and delivered to the Mayor's desk for approval. It is now legal to possess up to two (2) ounces of cannabis, including cannabis paraphernalia, and ...
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Missouri General Assembly to Consider Marijuana Legalization

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Missouri legislators prefile marijuana related bills ahead of 2022 session. Marijuana legalization will be considered in Missouri for the upcoming spring 2022 legislative session. The Missouri general assembly has experienced a flurry of activity since December 1, 2021. That is the date legislators may officially prefile their bills for the upcoming spring 2022 session. Marijuana legalization is one of the big topics. Several other bills have been prefiled to ensure additional individu...
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Missouri NORML Conference Addresses Legalization Question

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(Note: This event has ended.) The march toward adult use cannabis legalization continues at the international, national, and state levels. More than 128 million people in the US have used marijuana. That's more than half the US adult population who have used a federally illegal drug. Proponents of legalization want to end the annual arrests of the nearly 600,000 US citizens, free up scarce police resources, and stop racial disparities in marijuana law enforcement. Missouri arrests for ca...
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Know Your Rights When Dealing With The Police

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Can you be arrested for cannabis possession as a legal medical marijuana patient? Does your medical marijuana patient ID protect you in a traffic stop? How do you respond to an officer who wants to search your vehicle because he or she smells weed? What happens when law enforcement shows up at your front door to investigate marijuana plants the neighbor says you're growing, but you're a legal patient and home cultivator? With the passage of Amendment 2, legal medical cannabis became y...
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Marijuana Bills Prefiled for Missouri’s 2021 Legislative Session

2021 Missouri Marijuana Related Bills
Marijuana won big in the 2020 election as Montana, Arizona, New Jersey, South Dakota, and Mississippi approved marijuana ballot measures. New Jersey, Arizona, South Dakota, and Montana became the newest states to legalize adult use marijuana. These additions to the growing list of legal states raised the total number of states with recreational cannabis from 11 to 15. There are now 109 million Americans living in areas where adults can use cannabis legally. Missouri's eastern neighbor...
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Missouri’s March Towards Marijuana Legalization in 2022

Missouri Marijuana Legalization for Adult in 2021
Early in 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic was largely responsible for halting the Missourians for a New Approach (MNA) initiative campaign to place an adult-use marijuana bill on the fall 2022 Missouri ballot. The group's goal was to update Missouri's Constitutional Article XIV with a new Section 2 allowing adult use of cannabis. It is all but certain that this campaign will launch again in 2021. Dan Viets, chairman of the MNA advisory board indicated in an interview with Cannabis Dispensary M...
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