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Missouri Marijuana Legalization and Automatic Expungement Initiative
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Ballot date
November eight, 2022
Topic
Marijuana
Status
Cleared for signature gathering
Type
Constitutional amendment		 Origin
Citizens

The Missouri Marijuana Legalization and Automatic Expungement Initiative may announced on the ballot in Missouri as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The amendment would legalize recreational marijuana, prohibit tax on medical marijuana, allow driving while under the influence of marijuana, and automatically expunge and release individuals convicted of nonviolent marijuana-related crimes.[ane]

Text of measure

Election title

The ballot title is equally follows:[1]

"

Exercise you want to amend the Missouri Constitution to:

  • repeal all electric current medical marijuana (cannabis) provisions;
  • remove state prohibitions on possession, consumption, cultivation, and sale of marijuana for personal or medical utilize, regardless of age;
  • legally allow driving nether the influence of marijuana;
  • release all individuals from incarceration, parole and probation from whatever confidence for a nonviolent marijuana-related crime;
  • remove state prohibitions on cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and sale of marijuana;
  • destroy all state civil and criminal records of nonviolent marijuana-related crimes;
  • prohibit Missouri profitable enforcement of federal marijuana offenses; and
  • prohibit the taxation of dr.-recommended medical marijuana?

Country governmental entities guess savings of at least $2 meg annually and an almanac touch on to revenues ranging from a $12 1000000 decrease to a $22 meg increase by 2028. Local governmental entities are estimated to accept acquirement increases ranging from $4 one thousand thousand to $26 1000000 annually by 2028.[2]

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Total text

The full text of the measure is bachelor here.

Groundwork

Legalization in the U.Southward.

See as well: Marijuana laws in the U.s. and History of marijuana on the ballot

California Suggestion nineteen, which would have legalized marijuana, appeared on the ballot in 2010. It was defeated, with 53.5 pct of voters casting "no" votes.[three] U.S. Chaser General Eric Holder commented on Proffer xix, saying President Barack Obama'south (D) assistants would "vigorously enforce the (Controlled Substances Act) confronting those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational employ, fifty-fifty if such activities are permitted under state law."[4]

In 2012, legalized recreational marijuana advocates saw their kickoff statewide victories in Colorado and Washington. Two years after, voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. canonical marijuana legalization. Regarding how the federal authorities would respond, President Obama stated, "We've got bigger fish to fry. It would not make sense for us to run into a pinnacle priority as going afterward recreational users in states that have adamant that it'southward legal."[5]

In 2015, voters in Ohio defeated Result 3, which was designed to legalize the sale and use of marijuana and authorize x facilities with sectional commercial rights to grow marijuana.[6]

Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada all had marijuana legalization initiatives on their 2016 general election ballots. The initiatives passed in all of the states but Arizona, where voters rejected the measure 51.3 to 48.7 percent.[7]

Michigan became the first state in the Midwest to legalize marijuana after voters canonical Proposal 1 in 2018.[8] North Dakota Measure 3, which was besides on the ballot in 2018, would have legalized marijuana only was defeated.[ix]

As of 2019, two states—Illinois and Vermont—had legalized the recreational utilize of marijuana through the legislative procedure and governor's signature.[10] [11]

The following map depicts the legal status of recreational marijuana in different states:

Land political context of legalization ballot measures

The following table provides information on the political context of united states that had voted on legalization measures as of 2020.

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Comparison of legalization ballot measures

The following tabular array compares a option of provisions, including possession limits, local command, taxes, and revenue dedications, of election initiatives that were designed to legalize marijuana.

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Marijuana on the election in 2020

See also: 2020 marijuana legalization and marijuana-related ballot measures

Country ballot measures

The following is a list of marijuana-related statewide election measures that were on the ballot in 2020:

Ballot Measure out: Effect:
New Jersey Public Question one: Marijuana Legalization Subpoena Approved a
South Dakota Constitutional Subpoena A: Marijuana Legalization Initiative Approved a/Overturned ot
South Dakota Initiated Measure 26: Medical Marijuana Initiative Approved a
Arizona Proposition 207: Marijuana Legalization Initiative Approved a
Montana CI-118: Allow for a Legal Age for Marijuana Subpoena Approved a
Montana I-190: Marijuana Legalization Initiative Approved a
Mississippi Initiative 65 and Alternative 65A: Medical Marijuana Amendment Overturned ot

Path to the ballot

Come across besides: Laws governing the initiative process in Missouri

Procedure in Missouri

In Missouri, the number of signatures required to authorize an initiated constitutional subpoena for the ballot is equal to eight percent of the votes bandage for governor in the previous gubernatorial election in 6 of the 8 land congressional districts. Signatures must be filed with the secretarial assistant of state half-dozen months prior to the election.

The requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:

  • Signatures: The smallest possible requirement is 160,199 valid signatures.[12] The actual requirement depends on the congressional districts in which signatures are collected.
  • Borderline: The deadline to submit signatures is May 8, 2022.

Once the signatures take been filed with the secretary of country, the secretary copies the petition sheets and transmits them to county ballot authorities for verification. The secretary of land may choose whether the signatures are to exist verified by a 5 per centum random sample or full verification. If the random sampling projects between 90 percent and 110 percent of required signatures, a full check of all signatures is required. If more than 110 percent, the initiative is certified, and, if less than xc percent, the initiative fails.

Stages of this initiative

Mark Pedersen filed the election initiative on March 23, 2020. On May five, 2021, Secretary of Country Jay Ashcroft (R) cleared the initiative for signature gathering.[1]

See too

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Missouri Secretarial assistant of State, "2022 Initiative Petitions Approved for Circulation in Missouri," accessed May half dozen, 2021
  2. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  3. ↑ LA Weekly, "What Killed Prop. 19?" Nov iv, 2010
  4. ↑ Washington Post, "How Democrats batty marijuana legalization in California," November 10, 2014
  5. ↑ Washington Mail, "Obama: I've got 'bigger fish to fry' than pot smokers," Dec 14, 2014
  6. ↑ CNN, "Ohio voters reject legal marijuana," Nov 4, 2015
  7. ↑ Time, "These States Merely Legalized Marijuana," November 8, 2016
  8. ↑ Forbes, "Michigan Voters Approve Marijuana Legalization," November 6, 2018
  9. ↑ Yard Forks Herald, "ND voters snuff out recreational marijuana measure," Nov vii, 2018
  10. ↑ Burlington Free Printing, "Vermont's legal marijuana police: What you should know," Jan 23, 2018
  11. ↑ NPR, "Illinois Governor Signs Police Legalizing Recreational Utilize Of Marijuana," June 26, 2019
  12. ↑ This signature requirement is a projected approximate based on increased turnout in 2020. The official turnout within each of the eight congressional districts required to summate the precise requirement was unavailable equally of December 24, 2020.

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