Long-Time Marijuana Law Reform Group Announces 2023 Legislative Agenda

Posted on November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 by GSTL-NORML

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 ...

Adult Use Campaign Update

Posted on March 28, 2020April 29, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

Greater St. Louis NORML Chapter Meetings on the second Monday of the Month

UPDATE: April 16, 2020 - The initiative campaign to put an adult use question on the November 2020 ballot has ended because of Covid-19 virus concerns. Missouri voters will have another chance in the 2022 election cycle. Columbia, MO – The status of the effort to legalize adult use of marijuana in Missouri this year is unclear. No official decision has yet been made regarding whether to suspend the campaign. If we do so, it is likely we will return to pursue this goal in 2022, wrote Da...

Greater St. Louis NORML’s Board Takes Office

Posted on February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

St. Louis, MO – Greater St. Louis NORML elections were held at our February 2020 meeting. We are happy to report our newly elected directors have taken their new positions. Nicholas Babcock and Cecil King have returned for another term. Here is the board of directors lineup for 2020/2021: Abrahama Keys, Executive DirectorRobert Weber, Deputy Director Nicholas Babcock, Treasurer Nichole Lipner, Secretary Cecil King, Communications Director Many thanks to our outgoing board of directors who...

Missouri Adult-Use Marijuana Initiative Launched

Posted on January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

Missouri campaign for adult use cannabis launched

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI – On Thursday, January 30, 2020, a broad coalition of Missourians, named Missourians for a New Approach, launched an effort to gather signatures for an initiative petition that would place a question on legalizing adult-use marijuana on the 2020 ballot in Missouri. The effort is being backed by many of the same Missourians and groups that passed a medical marijuana constitutional amendment with 66% in 2018. John Payne, Missourians for a New Approach Campaign Man...

Local Campaign Challenges Missouri Cannabis Prohibition

Posted on March 15, 2018March 17, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Prohibition Doesn't Work Billboard launches March 16, 2018

The local St. Louis metro chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has embarked on a new and exciting campaign to change marijuana laws in Missouri. Beginning March 16, 2018, Greater St. Louis NORML (GSTL NORML) launched a public interest campaign with a series of billboards to engage the public about marijuana laws and public policy. Public approval of marijuana legalization has reached its highest level this year. Six-in-ten Americans, or 61%, say...

Nineteenth Annual Drug War Victims Vigil

Posted on February 12, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Greater St. Louis NORML Drug War Victims Vigil on Valentine's Day.

St. Louis, Missouri (14 February 2018) – The local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (Greater St. Louis NORML) announces a Drug War Victims Vigil to take place on Wednesday, the 14th of February 2018 at the St. Louis County Justice Center at 100 S. Central, Clayton, Missouri 63105. Members, supporters, and victims will gather outside the county jail from 11:30 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. to peacefully protest the arrest and incarceration of marijuana users. The vigil wi...

Greater St. Louis NORML Endorses St. Louis Marijuana Law Enforcement Reform Measure

Posted on October 27, 2017July 17, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Megan Green submits cannabis legalization bill

For immediate release October 26, 2017 Greater St. Louis NORML Endorses St. Louis Marijuana Law Enforcement Reform Measure St. Louis, MO - 10/25/2017 - On the heels of 15th Ward Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green’s announcement of her measure to “prevent the city government from interfering with the safe and responsible use of marijuana in the City of St. Louis” the Greater St. Louis Chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) offered their endorsement of the propo...

Missouri NORML Chapters Launch “NORML’s Project 4-22”

Posted on November 3, 2016May 22, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, November 4th, 2016 Media Contact: Blake Bell, 314-637-7982, Blake@NewApproachMissouri.com and Dan Viets, 573-819-2669, DanViets@gmail.com Info@GreaterStlNORML.org – Goes live 11/11/16 NORML chapters across Missouri launch “NORML's Project 4-22,” a program for veterans designed to provide important knowledge about medicinal cannabis. St. Louis, Missouri - This Veterans Day NORML Chapters across Missouri will honor our veterans by launching ‘’Project 22’...