The Cannabis, 12 step program, with Mark Pedersen.

Time To Talk. If you missed the Nixa Missouri, meeting, Friday night, don’t fret. I recorded it, for just such the case. Please take the time and learn how this one plant might be able to save the live of that loved one you have that is on deaths door and the rest of this world. The possibilities are seemingly unlimited. If you are a farmer, this could save the farm. Overfull prisons? Why? Have you ever asked, why was this plant made illegal to begin with?

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MISSOURI CANNABIS RESTORATION AND PROTECTION ACT 2016
July 6, 2014 at 6:58pm
This measure amends the Missouri Constitution by adding Section 54 to Article 4. This amendment implicitly repeals, in part or in whole, and amends various statutes and subsections including but not necessarily limited to RSMo 105.1105, 105.1108, 105.1112, 195.010.(10)(b)c,195.010.(10)(d), 195.010.(17)(m)(b), 195.010.(17)(g), 195.010.(17)(l),195.010(24), 195.015.4, 195.017.2(4)(r), 195.017.2(4)(z), 195.017.2(4)(ii),195.140.2(2), 195.202.2, 195.202.3, 195.211.2, 195.211.3, 195.211.4, 195.222.7,195.223.7, 195.223.8, 263.250.1.

Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended:

1. Cannabis shall immediately be removed from the Missouri Revised Statutes list of controlled substances and shall no longer be listed among Missouri’s drugs schedules.

2. Definition of terms, as used in this Act:
(a) “cannabis” and “cannabis hemp” refer to the cannabis, marihuana, marijuana, cannabis sativa, cannabis indica, cannabis ruderalis, or any variety of cannabis, including any derivative, concentrate, extract, flower, leaf, particle, preparation, resin, root, salt, seed, stalk, stem, or any product thereof.
(b) “medical cannabis” refers to the medical use of cannabis.
(c) “personal use” refers to the non-medical consumption of cannabis.
(d) “cannabis accessories” means any equipment, products, or materials of any kind that are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, or containing cannabis, or for ingesting, inhaling, vaporizing, smoking or otherwise introducing cannabis into and/or onto the human body.
(e) “establishment” refers to a cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis testing facility, a cannabis product manufacturing facility, or a retail cannabis store or other entity that cultivates, prepares, manufactures, packages, transports or sells cannabis, cannabis products and/or cannabis accessories.

3. The following acts are not unlawful and shall not be an offense under Missouri law. 
(a) Possession of cannabis for personal or medical use.
(b) Cultivating cannabis for personal use, or in an area sufficient to produce the quantity necessary to address a patient’s needs.
(c) Cultivation, harvesting processing, manufacturing, packaging, distributing, transferring, displaying or possessing cannabis, cannabis accessories, and cannabis products for commercial purposes provided the person has current applicable licensing to operate a commercial establishment. No special licensing will be required beyond that which is applicable for the cultivation, harvest, processing, manufacturing, packaging, distribution, transferal, display or possessing of any non-toxic food or food product.
(d) Providing cannabis, cannabis accessories, and cannabis products for sale to consumers. 
(e) Leasing or otherwise allowing the use of property owned, occupied or controlled by any person, corporation or other entity for any of the activities conducted lawfully in accordance with paragraphs (a) through (d) of this subsection.
(f) The use and/or possession of cannabis shall not be grounds for issuing a “Driving under the influence” (DUI) charge, arrest or fines when operating a motor vehicle.

4. Medical cannabis shall be available to patients without taxation who have a physician’s recommendation for its use.
(a) All patients engaged in cannabis therapy shall be afforded the same rights and privileges afforded to any patient treated through conventional therapeutic means.
(b) Licensed physicians shall not be penalized for, nor restricted from recommending cannabis for medical purposes to any person under their care. 
(c) Veterinarians shall not be penalized nor restricted from recommending cannabis for medical purposes for any creature under their care. 
(d) Opinions pertaining to, and willingness to recommend medical cannabis therapy shall not be a criteria for the licensure of physicians; no physician shall be subject to any professional licensing review or hearing as a result of recommending or approving medical cannabis therapy.
(e) Any individual who is a cannabis patient in another state shall be granted the same rights and privileges as a legal Missouri cannabis patient.
(f) Medical care, including organ transplants, shall not be restricted in any way based on a person’s use of cannabis.

5. The dictates of this Initiative shall be implemented no later than January 1, following the election that placed this Initiative before the people. 

6. Upon the passage of this Act, all persons incarcerated or under supervision of the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole for non-violent, cannabis-only offenses which are no longer illegal in the State of Missouri under this Act shall be immediately released.
(a) The Court shall order the immediate expungement of civil and criminal records pertaining to all non-violent cannabis only offenses which are no longer illegal in the State of Missouri under this Act.
(b) Within 60 days of the passage of this Act,the Attorney General shall develop and make available to the public a legal document ordering the immediate destruction of all cannabis-related non-violent civil and criminal records in Missouri and for any offense covered by this amendment. This document shall be distributed to all Circuit Court clerks within the State.

7. No Missouri law enforcement personnel or state funds shall be used to assist or aid in the enforcement of federal cannabis laws involving acts which are no longer illegal in the State of Missouri under this amendment.

8. Any person who willfully impedes the lawful exercise of these provisions is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

9. Cannabis farmers, manufacturers, processors, and distributors shall not be subject to any special zoning requirement, licensing fee that is excessive, discriminatory, prohibitive, or in any way contrary to that which is relative to any other commercial or agricultural farmer, manufacturer, processor or distributor.

10. Pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the people of Missouri hereby repudiate and challenge federal cannabis prohibitions that conflict with this Act.

11. If any rival or conflicting initiative regulating any matter addressed by this act receives the higher affirmative vote, then all non-conflicting parts shall become operative.

12. All provisions of this section are self-executing and severable, and, except where otherwise indicated in the text of this document, shall supersede conflicting city, county, state or federal statutory, local charter, ordinance, or resolution.

Written by Mark Pedersen, CPN Institute, July 5th, 2014.
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