Missouri Cannabis Industry Conference Opens With Packed House

Posted on March 24, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Missiouri Cannabis Industry Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri

Missouri's first cannabis industry conference kicked off in St. Louis at 9:00 am Friday, March 23, 2018 in the City Place Hotel conference facility. More than 200 future cannabis entrepreneurs from across the Show-Me state came to learn how legal, regulated and taxed medical marijuana businesses will operate in Missouri. As the New Approach Missouri campaign to legalize medical marijuana enters the final signature gathering phase, local, state and nationwide interest is increasing. The Mis...

NAM Town Hall in Joplin

Posted on March 3, 2018March 3, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Missouri Southern State University (MSSU) Democrats have reached out and offered to host a town hall for New Approach Missouri. No matter your opinion on medical cannabis, come out and learn more about medical cannabis and how we will let the voters of Missouri decide if the conversation should be between a patient and their doctor. We expect this will be an educational and interesting time for residents of Joplin and the surrounding areas. This meeting will take place on Thursday, March 8...

Stop Jeff Sessions

Posted on January 11, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Stephen Colbert blasts Jeff Sessions on Marijuana

ACTION ALERT Tell Your Representative To Support The McClintock-Polis Amendment Since 2014, members of Congress have passed annual spending bills that have included a provision protecting those who engage in the state-sanctioned use and dispensing of medical cannabis from undue prosecution by the Department of Justice. The amendment, known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment, maintains that federal funds cannot be used to prevent states from “implementing their own state laws that auth...

Saint Louis Medical Cannabis Summer Fundraiser

Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Greater St. Louis NORML signature gathering booth with New Approach Missouri

New Approach Missouri is having a Summer Fundraiser in St. Louis on Tuesday, August 08, 2017, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. The campaign to legalize medical cannabis in Missouri is in full swing. “We have gathered nearly 50,000 signatures,” announced John Payne, New Approach Missouri (NAM) campaign manager, to nearly 30,000 medical cannabis legalization supporters across the state in a communication. “Summer is here, and that means our campaign for medical cannabis is moving into high gear,” offered...

Rolla Prohibitionists Block NAM Medical Marijuana Petitioners

Posted on May 24, 2017May 25, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Rolla public library officials blocked NAM petitioners from meeting on public property.

Rolla city officials have blocked a New Approach Missouri (NAM) petitioner training event from the Rolla Public Library. “Back in February,” said John Payne, NAM Campaign Manager, “volunteer petitioner Randy Johnson attempted to schedule a petitioner training event at the Rolla Public Library.” That request was denied by the library. Library officials refused to schedule the event and based their decision on the fact that it was a petition to create legal access to medical cannabis in Mis...

Demystifying the Medical Marijuana Movement in Missouri

Posted on April 14, 2017April 14, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

New Approach Missouri's campaign director, John Payne, revealed on April 13, 2016 their medical marijuana initiative has gathered more than 15,000 signatures. Relying strictly on volunteers, Payne indicated the pace of signature gathering is increasing. The goal is to secure 280,000 signatures. "We could reasonably exceed our goal of collecting half the 280,000 signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot with volunteers – an unprecedented feat for a constitutional amendment initiative ...

New Approach Missouri St. Louis Kick-Off Event

Posted on March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

New Approach Missouri (NAM) is holding its Saint Louis, MO campaign kick off at the Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Boulevard, on Thursday March 9, 2017, and has an exciting speaker! Dr. Adie Wilson-Poe, PhD, is a global leader in opioid and cannabis research, and she will be speaking on the research showing the benefits of cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain. Campaign leaders including spokesman Jack Cardetti and John Payne will be on hand to discuss NAM's strategy for qualifying ...

Activists Moving Missouri Medical Cannabis Initiative Forward

Posted on February 6, 2017February 13, 2017 by GSTL-NORML

Signature workers were well organized at the New Approach Missouri Kickoff event.

New Approach Missouri's (NAM) medical marijuana initiative is gaining momentum. Following a series of sequential kickoff events across the Show-Me State during the last week of January 2017 and into February, NAM organizers successfully established a statewide network of trained activist volunteers to gather signatures for the 2018 medical cannabis initiative. NAM campaign manager John Payne indicated in a memorandum to volunteers on Jan. 27 that there were already “around 200 volunteers in t...

Medical Marijuana Initiative May Come Back In 2018

Posted on November 3, 2016November 9, 2016 by GSTL-NORML

The Cole County circuit court entered a judgment against New Approach Missouri (NAM) in their lawsuit to reinstate 2,242 invalidated signatures from the second congressional district. The ruling on September 21, 2016 effectively ended Missouri's 2016 campaign to legalize medical marijuana. No medical cannabis initiative will appear on the November 2016 ballot in Missouri. “This outcome is heartbreaking,” said John Payne, Campaign Manager for New Approach Missouri, “and it's particularly fr...