Online Chapter Meeting

Posted on December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

St. Louis City Board Bill 180 to be submitted to voters

An online Facebook LIVE meeting on recreational cannabis. Join us for a conversation on what's going on in the cannabis industry both in MO and across the country. Updates on dispensary openings, info on patient numbers in the state and more. Facebook LIVE Meeting We will be talking about the possibility of recreational cannabis in Missouri. We'll discuss the initiative process and how Missourians will be able to vote for a recreational cannabis bill in 2022. Our special guest speaker...

Marijuana Legalization is a Winning Political Issue

Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

Candidates who support ending the war on drugs and legalizing cannabis will earn strong support from smart voters. That’s because a super-majority of Americans, including most Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, want the federal government to legalize cannabis. Americans know this by a large majority. But neither Donald Trump or Joe Biden has received the memo. Sign the Petition Both candidates want your vote in November. But neither have sought to earn your vote by pled...

Advocacy Certificate: Webinar

Posted on June 26, 2020September 3, 2021 by GSTL-NORML

Join the Green Flower + NORML team for a live webinar on Tuesday, 6/30/20 at 2:00 PM CST. Max Simon will host guests Keith Stroup & Jenn Michelle Pedini who are so excited to be sharing NORML's new Advocacy Certificate program, powered by Green Flower (@greenflowermedia) with you! Click the link to learn more about this exciting new program, and enroll today to start advocating! https://bit.ly/AdvocacywebinarGFNORML #LearnGreenFlower #CannabisAdvocate #WhatLegalizationLo...

DHSS Rule Would Ban Cannabis Plant Sales

Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

DHSS would ban plant sales under proposal. Missouri's medical marijuana law under Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution allows patients to legally cultivate cannabis. Under a new proposed Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) rule, card carrying cannabis patient cultivators would not be legally able to obtain cannabis clones, seedlings or plants. The DHSS proposed a rule which would prohibit Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries from selling plants, seedlings or cl...

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...

Missouri State NORML Conference Rescheduled

Posted on March 18, 2020September 17, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

UPDATE March 23, 2020: The state NORML affiliate chapter directors have unanimously voted on Monday, March 23, 2020 to reschedule the State NORML Conference for October 10, 2020. More details will be available in the coming weeks. Keith Stroup, founder of the national NORML will be the major keynote speaker. Concerns over the coronavirus and the cancellation of in-person classes at the University of Missouri at Columbia has led to the cancellation of Missouri NORML's spring conference. ...

Bills Filed to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients’ Rights as Employees and as Parents

Posted on February 29, 2020March 8, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

New Missouri Marijuana Protection Bills Filed in 2020

St. Louis, MO – As a direct result of Missouri NORML’s Lobby Day on February 26, 2020, new bills protecting the rights of Missouri medical marijuana patients have been filed in the Missouri House of Representatives! One bill will protect the rights of medical marijuana patients as employees from discriminatory actions by their employers based only on a positive drug test for marijuana. The other will protect the rights of medical marijuana patients as parents from arbitrary ...

February 26 Lobby Day Schedule Set

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

When the legislature is rockin', we come knockin'! Missouri NORML will be sponsoring its first Lobby Day of the 2020 session of the Missouri General Assembly next Wednesday, February 26, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Missouri state Capitol Building in Jefferson City. We hope that you will attend. We will gather at 11:00 a.m. in the northwest corner of the Capitol Building on the first floor, between offices 112 and 113. We will review some of the pending bills and we will hear fr...

DHSS Weighs In On Cannabis Possession Questions

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

In response to medical marijuana activists who have protested the arrest of Jamie Wilson, a legal medical marijuana patient and home cultivator charged with marijuana possession, Lyndall Fraker, DHSS Director of Missouri Medical Marijuana has issued an opinion letter clarifying the law under Article XIV. "At the request of several law enforcement entities and legislators," wrote Fraker on January 28, 2020, "we are writing to express the Department of Health and Senior Services' understan...

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...