Medical Marijuana Could be Heading For The Missouri Ballot
The Missouri House twice this year killed attempts to legalize medical marijuana. A measure with the same aim could appear on the November ballot. It’s backed by a group called New Approach Missouri.
Spokesman Jack Cardetti says enough signatures were collected, but they must still be reviewed for verification by the Missouri Secretary of State’s office.
One medical marijuana proposal is dead, another could end up on ballot
“We thought the legislature was probably still a few years off from passing this,” said Cardetti. “Their voters and their constituents are far ahead of where the legislators are on this issue at this point. To basically tell cancer patients or epilepsy patients that we need to hold off and wait for three or four more years until the legislature passes it, we didn’t think that was fair.”
The measure would allow doctors to approve the drug for use by cancer, epilepsy,...
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