St. Louis Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession and Cultivation

Posted on December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

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 ...

Missouri General Assembly to Consider Marijuana Legalization

Posted on December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

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...

Petition Signing Locations

Posted on November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

Legal Missouri 2022 is now circulating petitions for registered voters to sign. Let's bring adult-use cannabis to Missouri on November 8, 2022. All Missouri registered voters may sign the petition. We need a total of 172,000 valid signatures to make the ballot in 2022. Want to help as a petitioner? Free training is available. You can collect signatures from your friends and family, or from 1,000 of your friends. Every signature counts. For more information about Legal Missouri 2022's initiative...

Adult-Use Cannabis Initiative Highlights

Posted on November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

At-A-Glance Petition Highlights: Allows Missourians 21 years and older to possess, purchase, consume and cultivate marijuana. Levies state taxes of 6 percent on retail sales of marijuana. New revenue funds regulatory program and costs to process automatic expungements, with the surplus split equally between veterans’ healthcare, drug addiction treatment, and Missouri’s underfunded public defender system. Allows local governments to assess local sales taxes of up to 3 percent. Ad...

Adult-Use Cannabis Campaign Launches

Posted on November 25, 2021November 25, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

Criminal justice reform a centerpiece of new Missouri legal cannabis campaign With voter approval, state would become 20th to authorize adult cannabis use ST. LOUIS – Three years after Missourians overwhelmingly agreed to enshrine the use and sale of medical cannabis in the state Constitution, a new campaign wants to give voters the opportunity to legalize marijuana for adult use in 2022. A citizens’ ballot initiative has been filed and approved to circulate by the Secretary of Sta...

Missouri’s Largest Cannabis Expo

Posted on October 30, 2021November 1, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

Missouri Cannabis Expo Greater St. Louis NORML will have a display booth at the Cannabis Industry Summit & Expo on November 17th & 18th. This event is billed as the “largest Cannabis Business Expo” in the Great Plains. Our Greater St. Louis NORML team will be collecting signatures to pass recreational marijuana in Missouri. Stop by BOOTH 706 and sign the petition. There is a special 2-for-1 ticket sale to reduce your cost for this two-day event. Full admission gets you into...

Missouri NORML Conference Addresses Legalization Question

Posted on March 17, 2021August 2, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

(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...

Know Your Rights When Dealing With The Police

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

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...

Marijuana Bills Prefiled for Missouri’s 2021 Legislative Session

Posted on January 5, 2021January 11, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

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...

Missouri’s March Towards Marijuana Legalization in 2022

Posted on January 3, 2021January 7, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

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...