Wrap: New Approach Missouri had enough signatures to get its initiative on the ballot. After hundreds of those signatures were invalidated, it missed by just twenty-three.

They're trying again for 2018.

New Approach Missouri's initiative would tax sales of medical marijuana by four percent to regulate the industry and contribute to the state's veterans.

A competing initiative, The Bradshaw Amendment, would create a cancer research center by taxing medical marijuana sales by fifteen percent on top of wholesale taxes.

Both of these measures need over one-hundred and sixty thousand signatures to be placed on the ballot.

Another, bipartisan initiative by former House Speaker Steven Tilley and former state representative Mike Colona would legalize medical marijuana and tax it by two percent. Their proposal would amend Missouri law rather than the constitution and need over 100,000 signatures.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

Wrap: Missouri has only taken small steps to lessen criminal charges against marijuana users by not allowing a jail sentence for the first instance of small possession. St. Louis City decriminalized 'small amounts' of marijuana with a fine of up to five-hundred dollars.

Yet two ballot initiatives hope to legalize recreational use of the drug.

Total Legalization's proposal would allow anyone eighteen or older to use marijuana and release prisoners held on nonviolent marijuana crimes. 

Missouri Marijuana Legalization Movement's proposal would allow possession and use of marijuana at any age and allow for its sale to anyone over twenty-one.

Both initiatives need over one-hundred and sixty thousand signatures to make the ballot.

Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.

Wrap: The "Right to Farm" constitutional amendment is a broad protection for farming interests and its byproducts in Missouri.

After three cases defending marijuana cultivation with the basis of their 'right to farm,' one man has decided to make a statement and possibly a change.

Damien Johnson introduced The Missouri Right to Farm Cannabis Initiative, which would protect growing pot and hemp in the original right to farm amendment.

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Jack Morrisroe, Newsradio 1120, KMOX.