Show-Me Cannabis Co-Founder Leaves Board After Lawsuits, Email Controversy

Missourians supporting medical marijuana are hoping 2016 is their year. Will lawsuits crush that hope?

Pot activists are confident that 2016 is the year that Missouri will finally legalize medical marijuana — with a slew of big donations aimed at placing a measure on the ballot this fall

But Show-Me Cannabis, the group that's helping to spearhead the effort via the campaign committee "New Approach Missouri," will have to do it without one of the group's founders. Leah Maurer, a prominent pro-marijuana activist, resigned from Show-Me Cannabis' board on Friday.

Maurer's resignation followed a slew of lawsuits against her and husband Travis Maurer, as well as the revelation of an email that seemed to uncomfortably combine the effort to legalize marijuana in Missouri with future entrepreneurial opportunities.

The Maurers have a complicated relationship with Missouri. Now living in Oregon, the couple fled Missouri after a 2009 police raid uncovered...

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