Missouri activists look here

[mjslover1]

Anyone from Missouri I am providing links to get in contact with our state senators and our state rep. I have written Todd Akin and got a response that I posted on another thread...it was not a favorable response.

House Rep
Todd Akin: Home Page - United States Representative Todd Akin, representing the 2nd district of Missouri (http://akin.house.gov/email.shtml)
Senators
Claire McCaskill: Senator Claire McCaskill : Missouri (http://mccaskill.senate.gov/contact/)
Kit Bond: .: United States Senator Kit Bond :: Contact :. (http://bond.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactForm)


Hell, even if your not from Missouri, write them anyways. Things like this should be posted on every message board, not just cannabis boards, in order for us to be heard more. Check your local towns news website and see if they have message boards. We all really need to start being more aggressive about this. Become active right now.:thumbsup:

[boaz]

^^ :thumbsup: right on, brudda. yes, Missouri does seem like the next State that is ready to bud. :jointsmile:

i don't live in Missouri but please allow me to talk as if i did :D . . . i did grow up in a tiny little Missouri town up there in the Ozarks so I'm with you all the way and will support all efforts on the web. I can't remember if Missouri has voter sponsored initiatives or not but that is, of course, one winning way to get it done state wide. I think it could pass. A couple years back I think Columbia had an city wide vote and I think parts of Michigan had city wide votes but now, thanks to the voters of Michigan and Mass, there are 14 free States :smokin:

option two, of course, is going straight to the Missouri State Congress. They would have to write med use laws into the books eventually (that is, assuming there are not already med use laws on the books up there, there are some here in Oklahoma, but just if you have cancer, I think).

but sometimes it seems like their nothing quite like a good vote of the people to set the law of the land. Good luck, keep up the effort.

[amoriahs]

:hippy:

I'm from MO, and very interested in starting this movement in my home state. I do work in politics, and suggest we go with local and state assembly 1st. Claire's office people are nice, but overwhelmed, and Kit is fairly conservative. Columbia did pass the ordinance, but at the last I heard, the police were fighting it tooth and nail...

[boaz]

ask and ye shall receive, eh?

:dance::weedpoke:

OzarksFirst (http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=109471)

Medical Marijuana Bill Filed In Missouri

Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 @07:02am CST


(St. Louis) -- Representative Kay Meiners of Kansas City has filed a bill similar to legislation passed in 13 other state that would allow some patients to use marijuana to treat side effects of chemotherapy, HIV-AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

The bill would allow Missouri doctors to authorize their patients to use marijuana for their illnesses.

Proponents of the bill argue that if doctors are already allowed to prescribe potentially addictive painkillers, they should be allowed to prescribe marijuana.


(Copyright 2009 Newsroom Solutions, LLC)



Thank you, Representative Meiners.

I did not know this until just now, when I was looking for this story, but Missouri had a similar bill back in 1996! Months before Prop 215 in California. :smokin:

February 22, 1996 - Jefferson City, MO, USA

A medical marijuana bill (Senate Bill 573) introduced by State Senator Joe Mosley has unanimously passed the Senate Public Health Committee. The bill states that "no criminal or civil penalty shall apply to any person for the act of possessing marijuana provided that ... a [physician] certifies in writing that the person is under professional care [and] ... needs marijuana as part of a therapeutic regimen".

I agree with the above comments that I believe Jefferson City, and other State legislatures is where these laws should be forged, although a little from DC-land in changing the federal laws would certainly help. I don't know much about Senator McCaskill, except that l loved her implicit references to Harry Truman during the elections talking about the "war profiteers". Christopher Kit Bond was gov when I lived there and everyone loved him! He is conservative, and most conservatives in these parts are not big fans of the wacky tobaccy, but if Missouri did pass this measure, my instict is he would respect the right of Jefferson City to decide this matter.