St. Louis NAACP President Endorses Amendment 2

Posted on September 21, 2018September 21, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in St. Louis, led by the association's president, Adolphus M. Pruitt, II, released a statement endorsing New Approach Missouri's (NAM) Amendment 2 on Friday, September 21, 2018. Amendment 2 will offer Missouri voters a chance to bring medical marijuana to the Show-Me state on November 6, 2018. Pruitt has been an advocate for medical cannabis legalization and has spoken a various legalization events hosted by Greater St...

Epilepsy Foundation Endorses Amendment 2

Posted on August 28, 2018September 21, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri Endorses Medical Marijauna Ballot Measure #2

“Patients should have the option of accessing medical marijuana.” This latest endorsement signifies strong support among patients for Missouri becoming the 31st state to allow medical marijuana. Missouri will be able to vote on the medical marijuana question on November 6, 2018. The Epilepsy Foundation of Missouri and Kansas endorsed New Approach Missouri on August 22, 2018. Their endorsement indicates a strong support among advocates in the healthcare community that Amendment 2 is the best ...

Adult Use Cannabis Campaign Launches In St. Louis

Posted on August 10, 2018August 29, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

An initiative campaign to legalize adult use of cannabis in the city of St. Louis is now underway. A political action committee (PAC) is registered with the state of Missouri to place an initiative on the ballot in early 2019. The PAC, Common Sense St. Louis (CSSL), seeks to allow possession of up to 2.0 ounces of cannabis and cultivation of up to six flowering cannabis plants in the city. The ballot initiative contains all the provisions of the recently defeated Board Bill 180 submitted by A...

We Did It! Yes on 2!

Posted on August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Dan Viets at the Spring Cannabis conference in 2018

New Approach Missouri (NAM) was contacted by the Secretary of State's Office in the morning of August 2nd with news that our medical marijuana initiative is certified to appear on the November 6, 2018 ballot. In a communication to NAM volunteers, supporters and NORML members across the state, Dan Viets, NAM Board President, said he was “pleased” to bring the good news. “New Approach Missouri is closely allied with Missouri NORML and the active Missouri NORML Chapters around the state,” wrote ...

Farm Bill Will Change Controlled Substances Act

Posted on June 29, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

A monumental and historic piece of legislation seeks to change the Controlled Substances Act by removing hemp and “hemp tetrahydrocannabinols” from the most restrictive Schedule I classification was passed by the Senate on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The 1,000-page piece of legislation known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, or just Farm Bill for short, contains U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) Hemp Farming Act language normalizing hemp as an agricultural commodity....

Tower Grove Pride Festival

Posted on June 16, 2018June 17, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Greater St. Louis NORML at Tower Grove Pride

June 23, 2018 — We are so excited to have a booth at this year's festival in Tower Grove Park! Saturday, June 23, 2018 Time: 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm Tower Grove Pride will be the biggest and best festival to date with two stages and more than 150 booths. There will be activity zones, pet play areas, the Career Fair, and a new backstage indoor/outdoor space at the Stupp Center. Greater St. Louis NORML will be selling our t-shirts, cannabis lapel pins, stickers, frisbees and a whole lot more ...

Medical Marijuana Reduces Opioid Fatalities

Posted on May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

States that legalize medical marijuana reduce opioid deaths by 25%

The Greater St. Louis NORML (GSTL NORML) chapter is continuing to educate the public about medical marijuana's role in reducing opioid mortality. “We are placing strategically located billboards throughout the metro to educate St. Louis citizens about the benefits of legal and regulated medical marijuana,” says Karin Spinks Chester, Executive Director of GSTL NORML. “This is an important time to let people know about the benefits of medical marijuana,” offers Chester, “because New Approac...

372,483 Signatures Submitted!

Posted on May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

New Approach Missouri submits 372,783 signatures

On Friday, May 4, 2018, the New Approach Missouri (NAM) medical marijuana initiative campaign filed more than 372,400 signatures with the Office of the Missouri Secretary of State in Jefferson City. This represents the first phase of NAM's campaign to bring medical marijuana to the Show-Me state. Only 168,000 valid signatures are required in order to place the legalization of medical cannabis on the November 2018 ballot in Missouri. The second phase will be a public information campaign to...

Make Some Noise at March to the Arch

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

Greater St. Louis NORML (GSTL NORML), the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws will hold its annual March to the Arch in conjunction with worldwide activities and events associated with 2018 Global Marijuana Marches on the first Saturday in May. Join millions of cannabis and freedom activists in St. Louis and across the globe for our cannabis prohibition protest march and speaker event on Saturday, May 5, 2018 from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm. The March to the...

Missouri Ranks 5th In Nation for Marijuana Arrests

Posted on April 25, 2018April 25, 2018 by GSTL-NORML

Marijuana arrests for sales and possession in the Show Me State have risen more than 19% over a three-year period from 2014 to 2016 – totaling 22,462 in 2016, according to newly released national crime figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Possession-only arrests in Missouri have increased 20.789% in the same three-year period. In 2014 possession arrests were 17,615. In 2015 they rose to 19,577 and in 2016 they topped out at 21,277. Arrest for sales of marijuana were ...