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A Missouri lawmaker has pre-filed a bill for the 2024 session that would prevent police from using the smell of marijuana as the sole basis of a warrantless vehicle or property search.<\/p>\n
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ian Mackey (D), would build on the state\u2019s voter-approved cannabis legalization law, reforming law enforcement policies in a way that mirrors steps taken by other jurisdictions like Maryland and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Mackey filed an earlier version of the bill in 2021<\/a>, but it did not advance out of committee.<\/p>\n The one-page measure<\/a> says that \u201cthe odor of marijuana alone shall not provide a law enforcement officer with probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of a motor vehicle, home, or other private property.\u201d<\/p>\n Several legal cannabis states have similarly imposed the restriction on police, including Maryland, where the governor allowed legislation to go into law last year that blocks warrantless vehicle searches based on marijuana odor alone<\/a>. New Jersey\u2019s Supreme Court has already recently upheld similar rules in a case involving an improper search<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Missouri, the implementation of a vote-approved 2022 legalization law has also led to the expungement of more than 100,000 marijuana cases from court records<\/a>.<\/p>\n As of November, meanwhile, marijuana sales in the Missouri passed the $1 billion mark<\/a>\u00a0for 2023, which includes both adult-use and medical marijuana.<\/p>\n Of tax revenue received by the state, lawmakers recently announced that\u00a0$17 million will be used to fund veterans health, drug treatment and legal aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 More broadly, Missouri\u2019s marijuana system has experienced considerable turbulence this past year, with tens of thousands of products recalled over the allegedly illegal use of hemp-derived cannabinoids<\/a> from outside the state. In November, officials moved to revoke the business license of Delta Extraction<\/a>, the company at the center of the controversy.<\/p>\n The incident put state marijuana regulators\u00a0on their heels regarding practices at product testing labs<\/a>, which had already come under fire earlier in 2023 over alleged practices of \u201clab shopping\u201d as producers sought higher THC potency numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another company, Retailer Point Management, which does business as Shangri-La in Columbia, recently\u00a0settled a dispute with a union over 15 charges of unfair labor practices<\/a>. It\u2019s part of a\u00a0broader push by workers at cannabis businesses to organize the industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, lawmakers in November said the state\u2019s marijuana regulators overstepped their authority when setting new rules on product branding and packaging<\/a>\u00a0meant to limit appeal to children.<\/p>\n Businesses also recently\u00a0filed a lawsuit challenging the \u201cstacked\u201d local and county taxes<\/a>\u00a0that companies say is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n Last month, meanwhile, two Missouri Republicans pre-filed a pair of bills to legalize the medical use of psilocybin and require clinical trials<\/a>\u00a0exploring the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic.<\/p>\n Washington Bill Would Roll Back New Marijuana-Related Employment Protections For Drug Treatment Professionals<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n The post Missouri Police Couldn\u2019t Use Marijuana Odor As Basis Of Vehicle Or Property Searches Under New Bill<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A Missouri lawmaker has pre-filed a bill for the 2024 session that would prevent police from using the smell of marijuana as the sole basis of a warrantless vehicle or property search. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ian Mackey (D), would build on the state\u2019s voter-approved cannabis legalization law, reformingContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":71370,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71371,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71369\/revisions\/71371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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