West Plains, Mo. – A recreational marijuana amendment petition has received enough signatures to be placed on the November 8 ballot in Missouri. The St. Louis group, Legal Missouri 2022, needed roughly 175,000 signatures to have the constitutional amendment placed on the ballot and received over 390,000. The group delivered the petitions to the capitol on May 8.
This law will also allow Missourians with nonviolent marijuana-related offenses to automatically expunge their criminal records.
If the ballot measure passes, Missouri will be the 20th state in the Union to have legalized recreational marijuana use. The measure would allow Missourians age 21 and older to possess, purchase, consume and cultivate marijuana. The new law would put in place a 6% sales tax on legal marijuana purchases, allow local communities to opt-out of the law following a vote, and use the tax to fund drug addiction treatments, expungement costs, veteran healthcare, and the public defender system.
For more information about the ballot measure and Legal Missouri 2022, visit their website at LegalMo22.com
