The governor of Missouri has ruled out the idea of expanding a special legislative session he convened to add marijuana legalization to the agenda as a separate cannabis reform initiative is set to appear on the November ballot.
A special session focused on tax relief is scheduled to begin on September 14, and a newly formed campaign that opposes the legalization ballot measure has called on Gov. Mike Parson (R) to permit legislators to advance the issue legislatively ahead of the election, with a particular focus on a previously filed legalization bill from Rep. Ron Hicks (R).
But on Tuesday—the same day that a legislative committee is hearing testimony on the November ballot proposal—a spokesperson for the governor told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the top official’s call for a special session “will not be amended to include marijuana legalization.”
The governor also recently said that people who vote for the ballot measure will be “doing more for the corporations behind marijuana and for the business side of it, than you ever are for yourself.” But he’s also made false claims about the initiative, which he described as a “disaster,” such as that it is 450 pages long, when it
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