Missouri residents who support medical marijuana face multiple choices in November
BRANSON MO NEWS: Even if a majority of Missouri residents support legalizing medical marijuana, as one recent poll indicates, the November election makes voting for the issue complicated.The ballot will include three initiatives, including two constitutional amendments and one statutory amendment. While all legalize medical marijuana for some uses, they impose varying taxes on the drug that would support different programs and set up different bureaucratic ways of regulating it.Amendment 2, which is supported by New Approach Missouri, and Amendment 3, supported by Springfield lawyer and physician Brad Bradshaw, are constitutional amendments, which means they could only be amended later by an additional public voting process.
The third initiative, known as Proposition C, or the Missourians for Patient Care Act, is a statutory amendment and if passed would create a new law. That means legislators could potentially alter it at a later date.Each of the ballot initiatives would make it legal for Missouri residents to acquire licenses to grow, sell and manufacture marijuana and products made from marijuana for medical use at the state level, but each initiative contains certain particularities and would tax medical cannabis at different levels.One source of confusion for voters has to do with which initiative is enacted if more than one passes on the ballot.Sen. Caleb Rowden, R-Columbia, said that if either of the constitutional amendments pass, it would trump the statutory amendment, and if both pass, whichever one gets the most votes, becomes the amendment to the constitution.Amendment 3: Find the CuresBradshaw’s constitutional amendment, or Amendment 3, known as the “Find the Cures” initiative, is largely self-funded and would create a Biomedical Research and Drug Development Institute, a new government institution run by a nine-person board that Bradshaw himself would lead.Amendment 3 states that the institute would engage in “developing cures and treatments for …
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