Recreational marijuana is legal in 19 states, next month Missouri voters could make the Show-Me state the 20th state to legalize it.
On this episode of 4Star Politics, supporters and opponents of Amendment 3 join FOX4’s John Holt and Dave Helling to weigh in on what the issue could mean for the state.
But first, if Missouri Amendment 3 passes, this is what would change in Missouri:
- Recreational marijuana use will be legal in the state. Currently, only medial marijuana is allowed.
- People will be allowed to grow marijuana, within certain limits
- It also sets up a system to provide licenses allowing the sale of marijuana, much like medical marijuana did
- Certain non-violent marijuana offenses will be expunged
The idea began as petition, and supporters gathered enough signatures to allow Amendment 3 on the ballot for a vote in the Nov. 8 election.
“It’s time for adults to be able to participate in a system, in a business, and to quite frankly, stop criminalizing marijuana,” Justice Gatson, Legal Missouri 2022, said.
Gatson, and other Amendment 3 supporters, say sentencing for some minor marijuana offenses doesn’t often fit the crime.
“We’ve seen that Black and Brown communities are sentenced higher, they are incarcerated more than our white siblings who do the same thing. Quite frankly the Missouri vehicle stops report has come out now for over 20 years and…
