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TexasTowelie

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Wed Nov 14, 2018, 06:41 AM Nov 2018

Jackson County has pretty much decided to stop prosecuting marijuana cases

Last week, Missouri voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing medical marijuana, and it is only a matter of time until that good-ass choom is blowing recreationally across this state of ours.

In anticipation of this inevitability, St. Louis top prosecutor Kim Gardner announced back in June that her office would no longer prosecute people over possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Today, Jackson County top prosecutor Jean Peters Baker made a similar announcement: no more rinky-dink weed charges in Jackson County.

“That [last Tuesday's] mandate from voters is directing this shift in our office,” Peters Baker said in a release. “This changing attitude toward marijuana is something we have been seeing anecdotally from our juries for some time.”

Read more: https://www.thepitchkc.com/news/blog/21032138/jackson-county-missouri-has-pretty-much-decided-to-stop-prosecuting-marijuana-cases

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Jackson County has pretty much decided to stop prosecuting marijuana cases (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
So has STL City (which is a county by itself too)...I know that Kim G had announced back in ... SWBTATTReg Nov 2018 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. So has STL City (which is a county by itself too)...I know that Kim G had announced back in ...
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 12:10 PM
Nov 2018

June 2018 of no longer prosecuting folks over small amounts, but this has been in place for quite a while longer, lets say 2-3 years longer?! Perhaps the state is slowly, very slowly changing its ways, considering that large amounts of it are grown in the Mark Twain national forest.

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