Editor's Note: For more on Show-Me Cannabis' petition submission (filed Nov. 5), check out the details here.
Is Missouri ready to join Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., in legalizing marijuana? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks so.
The editorial board for St. Louis' metro daily newspaper has often supported legalizing pot, especially with this region's history of hemp agricultural production. But a week after Show-Me Cannabis filed the first round of paperwork to get the issue on the 2016 ballot, the Post-Dispatch published a piece headlined, "Editorial: Could pot legalization make Missouri's 2016 ballot? Let's hope so."
"Let the great pot debate of 2016 begin," the editorial says.
John Payne, executive director of Show-Me Cannabis, tells Daily RFT he didn't expect to hear support from the newspaper before the group collects the approximately 160,000 signatures needed for the issue to officially go on the ballot.
