cannabisnews.com: Senator Seeks To Penalize City for Marijuana Laws Senator Seeks To Penalize City for Marijuana Laws Posted by CN Staff on January 19, 2005 at 15:54:33 PT By Kelly Wiese, Associated Press Source: Associated Press Jefferson City, Mo. -- Columbia will pay a price for easing restrictions on marijuana prosecutions if one lawmaker gets his way. Sen. Chuck Gross, a St. Charles Republican, proposed legislation Wednesday that would prohibit public schools from holding athletic tournaments in Columbia.It's a response to two measures the city's voters OK'd in November. One makes marijuana arrests the lowest priority of city law enforcement, and the other allows marijuana to be used in the city for medical reasons. The legislation by Sen. Chuck Gross, R-St. Charles, would bar schools that receive state money from participating in "sporting events or athletic tournaments" in cities that have soft marijuana laws.The intent is not to prohibit Columbia schools from taking part in sports but to block regional or state tournaments from being held in the city, Gross said."I think it's a bad message to send off to kids - 'Hey, come to Columbia, you can bring your pot with you,'" Gross said.Athletic tournaments are big business for the city, which also is home to the University of Missouri-Columbia.Columbia Chamber of Commerce President Don Laird said he doubts the bill will become law. He said sports tournaments generate millions of dollars in economic activity for Columbia."Those types of things are very important to us," he said. "It would be very damaging to Columbia."Laird said the proposal is the first economic fallout he is aware of since the pot proposals passed.Dan Viets, a Columbia attorney and leading proponent of the new marijuana policies, called the bill "mean-spirited" but said he's not worried."I think what he's targeted is every school district in the state of Missouri," Viets said. "I feel sorry for the kids that might lose their opportunity to do what they want to do."One Columbia ordinance requires that arrests for possession of about 1 1/4 ounces of pot or less be handled in municipal court rather than state court. The maximum penalty is a $250 fine with no jail. In state court, the same charge packs a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.The other ordinance allows seriously ill patients, with their doctors' permission, to use marijuana.No other Missouri community has anything similar on the books, and marijuana possession remains a state crime.Marijuana athletic bill is SB197.ON THE NETLegislature: http://www.moga.mo.govMarijuana group: http://www.mpp.org/MO Source: Associated Press (Wire)Author: Kelly Wiese, Associated PressPublished: January 19, 2005 Copyright: 2005 The Associated Press Related Articles:Study Supports Among Missourians for MMJhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread20076.shtmlMarijuana Measures Pass Handily http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19765.shtml Both Pot Propositions Pass by a Large Marginhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19763.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #41 posted by ekim on January 22, 2005 at 09:53:03 PT Thanks BG CDC could add Cannabis to this request if compassion is to be http://www.leap.cc/events [ Post Comment ] Comment #40 posted by afterburner on January 21, 2005 at 22:37:42 PT Why Prohibition Is Doomed to Fail The prohibitionists are always yapping about "the children," but what they don't realize is: we're not just fighting for our rights and our medicine; we're fighting for *our* children, and grandchildren! [ Post Comment ] Comment #39 posted by BGreen on January 21, 2005 at 21:27:17 PT Here's A Related AP Story, ekim The Reverend Bud Green CDC Recommends HIV Drugs for All Exposed [ Post Comment ] Comment #38 posted by FoM on January 21, 2005 at 20:07:08 PT ekim I just went and read an article after I saw your post. I wish I knew how to comment on this very difficult issue but it's so complex to me because of my son I wouldn't feel right in saying how I feel about it and I really just don't know. [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by ekim on January 21, 2005 at 19:39:18 PT anyone hear this I just heard on NPR fm BBC news that the US is requiring those that have had unprotected sex or drug use who may have been exposed to AIDS to take meds. And that the person will be responsible for the price and payment of meds. I just turned on the radio and that was what was playing. So I do not know the full extent of the report. Just struck me as news as I have not been following the issue for some time. The report said that those that are in emergency sensitive jobs are at risk too. Am skeptical of such a program as how are those picked for preemptive action. http://www.leap.cc/events [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by Hope on January 21, 2005 at 17:50:10 PT Sukoi Thanks for those articles. I especially liked the one at http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9044~2661820,00.htmlKind of an antidote for that creepy story by that other young man a few days back. [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by Hope on January 21, 2005 at 17:20:31 PT Nick Did that guy put the leaf pin in his pocket or throw it down?What you do is so cool. I am so grateful for you and all you do. [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by FoM on January 21, 2005 at 16:49:47 PT BGreen I agree! Heck I live in Ohio! My mind is in a blue state though. It isn't where we are planted but how well we bloom. How's that? [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by BGreen on January 21, 2005 at 16:42:18 PT rchandar I live in southern Missouri and I'm the only "pigment challenged" member of my band.People would never admit to being racist but you're right ... many are. I doubt we hold the distinction of being any more racist than anyplace else in this country.One of the greatest things about CannabisNews.com is finding out that there are good people all over the place.The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by rchandar on January 21, 2005 at 16:00:45 PT: i don't give a s#$t-- Missouri's gotta be like the most racist place on the planet. God forbid, you end up in a place like Cape Girardeau or somewhere in the south. The worst. I don't doubt this kind of stupid proposal from them.--rchandar [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by FoM on January 21, 2005 at 15:44:35 PT Nicholas a Request You mentioned Steve Earle and I want to mention that I read yesterday in an article that he believes marijuana is a stepping stone drug to harder drugs because it was for him. If you would try to contact him since you know him it might be good to explain that it isn't a stepping stone to harder drugs. I bet if he was asked that he would say he drank alcohol before he ever smoked marijuana. That can be a stepping stone to hard drugs in my opinion. [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by FoM on January 21, 2005 at 15:10:34 PT Nicholas I don't know how you handle it but I'm glad you do. Having our hearts in the right place makes things so much easier. [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by Nick Thimmesch on January 21, 2005 at 14:57:20 PT: It's hard work FoM... ...but as Steve Earle says:"Somebody's got to do it"As long as my heart is in the right place, what does it matter where the rest of my body is? [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by FoM on January 21, 2005 at 12:08:12 PT Oh Nicholas You know how much I like you but a Bush pin! Oh my! I saw your comment before I turned in last night and thought well you must have had a good hooping and hollering time and I didn't want to bring you down.Did anyone every tell you that you know how to win friends and influences enemies? I'm just kidding. I thought maybe you thought you were on a republican board and didn't remember we were a Cannabis site with definite leanings to the left!You're too much! LOL! [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by dongenero on January 21, 2005 at 06:36:47 PT creative coalition It looks like they had to dig pretty deep to come up with a list of creative members. Maybe it's creative as in Creationism. [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by Nick Thimmesch on January 20, 2005 at 23:09:56 PT: Now be nice.... ...Thimmesch just endured going to a neo-Republican event held by the Creative Coalition wearing on one lapel pro-Bush buttons and on the other pro-pot buttons. When I placed one of NORML's great gold marijuana leaf pins on some stiff's tux, he wore it proudly for about five feet and ten ripped it off. At least I tried...and I don't know nor want to know anyone at DARE: my credentials and consciousness are clean."But the correlation between the two sometimes seems convincing. I don't think it'll pass; he's just grandstanding to impress his DARE buddies." http://www.thecreativecoalition.org/events/Inaugural.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by ekim on January 20, 2005 at 19:21:01 PT misspelled M/S multiple sclerosis sorry bout that --- sad that Larry did not have any info on Cannabis. anyone see ol Donald t fronten for BK. why not a nutrious berger with hemp meal and greens with hemp oil. wonder how many will have MC in the comming years like the inflictions today that are robbing many of their memories http://www.leap.cc./events [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by BGreen on January 20, 2005 at 16:59:10 PT en masse I don't know if I said what I think I was saying.I meant "in droves or in masses" but I think I might have said "in massages," which is not a very nice image.The Reverend Bud (limited vocabulary) Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by BGreen on January 20, 2005 at 16:51:46 PT The Missourian Finally Speaks I think everything rides on the Angel Raich case. If we win then stupid little men like Gross will be SOL (spit outta luck.)The other scenario will bring out the little maggots en masse.The Reverend Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by CorvallisEric on January 20, 2005 at 16:39:07 PT Nick is right (comment #8) ... this is ridiculous, not Republican. But the correlation between the two sometimes seems convincing. I don't think it'll pass; he's just grandstanding to impress his DARE buddies. [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by freedom23 on January 20, 2005 at 13:10:42 PT Chuck Gross info FYI, he's on the board for the St. Charles DARE. Any surprise? He also cosponsored a bill allowing companies to build on Native American burial grounds with minimal delay. Talk about bad karma.He's an elected LIFER RNC puppet. IMO, rather sad. He has my pity and disgust.Vote Smart Bio: http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=BS028462http://www.senate.mo.gov/04INFO/members/mem23.htmhttp://www.senate.state.mo.us/04info/members/bills/bil23.htmhttp://www.senate.state.mo.us/04info/MEMBERS/BILLS/cos23.htm "Bullsh*t: Penn & Teller" vs the War on Drugs [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by Shishaldin on January 20, 2005 at 11:35:45 PT F**k Chuck! What a punitive jerk! To top that off, I share his last name. I think I'll have to fire off a Gross-to-Gross missive to help fix his wrong-headed thinking...I'd be a whole lot more angry, though, if global_warming hadn't written this in Comment #3: "in spite of the pill *pooping* madness that has swept us all..." Even Mad King George's coronation today couldn't keep me from busting a gut when I read that :)Peace and Extra Strength (gonna need it today),Shishaldin [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by dongenero on January 20, 2005 at 08:39:57 PT time for this senator to hang it up So, he wants to punish school children and school districts in retaliation for adult voters passing a referendum on medical marijuana?Hopefully this ding dong politician will self destruct his career with this sort of idiocy. He needs to put the public out of his misery. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by The GCW on January 20, 2005 at 04:56:08 PT Are Republicans loyal to disobedient clergy? Children are permanently impressed only by the loyalties of their adult associates; precept or even example is not lastingly influential. Loyal persons are growing persons, and growth is an impressive and inspiring reality. Live loyally today -- grow -- and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole. [1094:6] -UrantiaAnd then,Be loyal to the truth, not deceit; Christ God Our Father, not Republican cannabis prohibitionists. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 22:36:36 PT siege I'm at a loss for words. I really am sorry. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by siege on January 19, 2005 at 22:24:45 PT FoM that is in the passed and it is good know. It is the others that P O me. And if any man did the same as "they Do" he would be Jailed for live. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 22:14:58 PT siege I'm sorry. She still is your daughter though. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by siege on January 19, 2005 at 22:05:22 PT FoM my daughter was one of there whores this is how I found out it [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 22:02:51 PT siege I don't know what to say except I know that nothing suprises me anymore. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by siege on January 19, 2005 at 21:36:55 PT sorry FoM Droping the Dime on the Senate You know what is funny is they are doing all these bad thing with the people.senators wake up : you put to a wrong or improper use of the young. Citizens look for the large air planes that land at your military bases it could be full of senator going to a party house there, prostitution: of young ladies 14 to 18. this is Just one of the senate's party Houses, just out side the gate of the base at twentynine plams calif. it is a two storey with 15 rooms, If you want the name of the madam I have it and I have had her jailed once allready in the mid 80's the girls get one Million Dollars in this time frame. And it is common knowledge of the Town of 29. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by John Markes on January 19, 2005 at 18:56:13 PT Representative to Ruler This is a fine example of polititians changing from wanting to represent the people to wanting to rule the people... [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by ekim on January 19, 2005 at 18:05:55 PT Larryking on Mon show on M/S no word on Cannabis did anyone see the show not one mention of Cannabis use for multiple sucrose'ssome history -------Ann Arbor MI has had a ticket law for Cannabis for 33 years. For the past 10 years Ann Arbor has been in the top ten best cities to raise and have a family. As for the sport minded students those that have received a ticket for Cannabis in the city have not lost their student loans do to harsh laws affecting those who get a ticket from the state. We are talking thousands of tickets that have saved not only those in sports but the whole gamut of studies from a criminal record. http://www.leap.cc/events [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by Sam Adams on January 19, 2005 at 17:46:01 PT high chance of disrespect here also! I know plenty of people that go to church who are NOT Republicans, it's not that. In fact, I would say that my church-going friends are horrified at Bush more than most people I know. But then, I'm in a blue state where most people are highly educated. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by Nick Thimmesch on January 19, 2005 at 17:43:28 PT: This logic. amplified... ...would mean that the U.S.A. would have to cop out of the Olympics next time around if, say, The Netherlands, Spain, etc. were to play in any sport. Oh yeah: no more business with any member countries of the EU, no more flights to and from these countries, etc. I'm an isolationist to the extreme, but this is ridiculous, not Republican. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 17:06:26 PT The GCW Heavy duty comment! I can relate to your anger. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by The GCW on January 19, 2005 at 16:59:19 PT It's Consistant, it's Republicans. Republicans are a low lot.I would like to go on an on throwing words out to describe Repubs, but I will pass...Perhaps it is time to pass the law in St. Charles and the rest of Missery; will they ban sports through out Missery?Republicans; lacking heart and soul; left with puke for compassion. Is there a pattern of people going to church regularily and turning into a Republican?Do they have to go to church to get this way? What a reason to avoid church. What causes this to happen with the brain of the Republican?I'm sick of this group. If cannabis users were violent, Republicans would be the ones paying (not school children). I Am pleased that We are peaceful, but Republicans, need to be controlled like the plague.Quarantine...Forgive Me, I Am angry.Let Us remain peaceful, but let Us stop the scum.Very angry.I hope to control Myself, but I Am likely to treat all Republicans with disrespect. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by Sam Adams on January 19, 2005 at 16:57:56 PT Why the kids? Ah - ha! His true colors are showing - "Let's go punish some kids, who are too young to vote, and had absolutely nothing to do with this referendum!" These prohibitionists are a bunch of sadistic Puritans.I've got an idea that makes FAR better sense. From now on, there will be no political junkets, dinners for politicians, receptions, open bars, or use of prostitution, in any cities with weak marijuana laws! [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 16:41:41 PT Sukoi I hope it's defeated too. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by global_warming on January 19, 2005 at 16:26:16 PT Go Missouri "The legislation by Sen. Chuck Gross, R-St. Charles, would bar schools that receive state money from participating in "sporting events or athletic tournaments" in cities that have soft marijuana laws...No other Missouri community has anything similar on the books, and marijuana possession remains a state crime."This butthole has the balls to go against what most decent and civilized people have already said that "Marijuana" is ok, it is less harmful than most of the prescribed medications that are currently available, can you imagine that there is still to this day, such a fool?I hope that the people in Missouri are not taking this jackass seriously. There has been so much medical evidence of the benefits of "smoked" marijuana leaves, in spite of the pill pooping madness that has swept us all, sometimes, you have to accept the tried and proven remedies, medicines that have survived time, and I mean time, thousands of years, and there is not one documented death from using marijuana, also known as cannabis, there has never been an overdose, like from aspirin or some of these other medications that are currently and legally available.gw [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Sukoi on January 19, 2005 at 16:21:04 PT FoM It was just a matter of time and I'm quite surprised that it hasn't happened before in other states. I think and hope that it will be soundly defeated!Here are some other things of interest; an excellent editorial and something that could be easily stopped if the government wanted to stop such things:Marijuana policies lack focushttp://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9044~2661820,00.htmlDundee man attacked, robbed of medical marijuanahttp://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2829574 [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on January 19, 2005 at 15:55:32 PT What Is Wrong With Them? I'm at a loss for words. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment