Missouri NORML’s April 15, 2023 Spring Conference

Posted on February 8, 2023April 12, 2023 by GSTL-NORML

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 ...

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...

A Special Invitation from Tommy Chong

Posted on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 by GSTL-NORML

An Invitation from Tommy Chong to the Missouri NORML Fall Conference 2020

Watch Tommy Chong's YouTube Invitation! Tommy Chong wants YOU to attend the October 10th Missouri NORML Conference! Watch Tommy Chong's special YouTube video invitation here! Join our Facebook Live 2020 Missouri NORML State Conference on Saturday, October 10th by going to the Missouri NORML Facebook page. We have an outstanding lineup of national and state speakers commencing at 10:00 a.m. until approximately 6:00 p.m. that day. The event is entirely online at: Missouri NORML’s Fac...

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...

Legislative Focus on Marijuana in 2020

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

The Missouri General Assembly 2020 session ended on May 15, 2020. Never before in recent history has Marijuana taken center stage in the legislative process with several related bills put forth this year. While Missouri is in the final stages of rolling out our new medical marijuana program amidst a continuing license scoring controversy, state legislators could not resolve the Department of Health and Senior Services' (DHSS) flawed licensing process by removing license caps. Instead, le...

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 ...

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...