User:Bri/Missouri 2020 cannabis legalization initiative

Missouri initiative 2020-128 would amend the Constitution of Missouri to:


 * remove state prohibitions on personal (recreational) use and possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and cultivation of up to three plants by persons at least 21 years old;
 * remove state prohibitions on commercial cultivation, manufacture, and sale of marijuana by state-licensed facilities;
 * impose a 15 percent tax on the retail sale of marijuana to primarily fund veterans' services, state highways, and drug addiction treatment;
 * require local voter approval to ban retail marijuana facilities; and
 * allow persons with certain marijuana-related offenses to apply for sentence reduction and records expungement.

The filing attorney for the three versions of the initiative is Deirdre Hirner. She was linked by St. Louis Post-Dispatch to former Adjutant General of the Missouri National Guard, Stephen Danner.

The Missouri Secretary of State had approved four adult-use legalization initiatives for signature gathering by the end of January.