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Cannabis in Missouri is legal for recreational use.A ballot initiative to legalize recreational use, Amendment 3, passed by a 53–47 margin on November 8, 2022.Possession for adults 21 and over became legal on December 8, 2022, with the first licensed sales occurring on February 3, 2023.
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
1973: Texas law is amended to declare possession of four ounces or less a misdemeanor. [18] [20] 1973: Oregon becomes the first state to decriminalize cannabis – reducing the penalty for up to one ounce to a $100 fine. [21] 1975: Alaska, Maine, Colorado, California, and Ohio decriminalize cannabis. [21]
Missouri had $12.7 million in sales over its first weekend of legalized recreational use.
Missouri legalized medical marijuana in 2018. The businesses that have become leaders in the state’s medical weed industry will be the first to get recreational licenses.
The state’s current medical marijuana laws state that it is legal for a local business to offer a discreet space for medical marijuana customers to consume the product.
Cannabis was banned in Montana in 1929, following a Health Committee meeting which was described in the local paper as "great fun", during which representative Dr Fred Fulsher [3] of Mineral County justified the ban due to marijuana's effects on Mexicans: "When some beet field peon takes a few rares of this stuff... he thinks he has just been elected president of Mexico so he starts out to ...
It was illegal to have both a Medical Card and a concealed carry weapon simultaneously in Missouri, but after state legislators passed a law, it became legal to obtain both. [9] On December 8, 2022, the 2022 Missouri marijuana legalization initiative led to the legalization of cannabis of up to three ounces. [10]