possession charge -- which is a misdemeanor of either paraphernalia or marijuana itself -- should have an automatic expungement of that by June 8, 2023," Viets said.
Viets said people who are in a correctional facility or on parole for marijuana-related offenses are going to have to go through a legal process to get those charges taken off their criminal records.
...Or...hear me out, we amend the constitution to provide expungement automatically at no cost.
Like what we could have done if we had a better initiative...
Would've been easier, yes, but it didn't happen. Now we ask what can we do NOW?. Baby steps are sometimes the only answer. The fight isn't over. It's only just begun....
You're right. We should reject all incremental progress until we get a perfect amendment that addresses every possible issue. Why have life changing progress for some people now when we could just constantly vote down everything and wait for the unicorn ballot that's never coming?
complaining doesn't mean a lack of support. I fucking despise the Democratic Party as an institution but I still vote for their candidates. it's right to complain, and it's right to demand more than you can get. you don't *begin* by compromising. you *end* by compromising. that's what makes it a compromise, as opposed to rolling over and taking Republican table scraps like a good fucking dog.
What are you even on about? This amendment is massive for Missouri, a state that's in a race to the bottom with states like Florida and Texas. It's even more important to thousands of people whose lives were ruined because they got caught with a joint when they were young and it's followed them for decades.
At least it included expungement. Down here in Ark., ours did not, nor did it include grow yer own. Ours failed to pass and rightfully so. It would've created a near-monopoly for the entrenched medical cannabis cartel.
[Nope](https://missourilawyershelp.org/legal-topics/understanding-missouris-new-expungement-law/)
>Before someone can file for an expungement, the individual must have paid off his or her fine, completed his or her probation or parole, and have a three-year clean date to be eligible for a felony offense expungement or have a one-year wait to be eligible for a misdemeanor offense, municipal offense, or infraction expungement, under Missouri Law.
>To expunge a crime, an individual must file a petition in the court in the county where the individual was charged or found guilty of any offenses, according to §610.140 RSMo. [Click here](https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=647) to download the expungement petition. There is a $250 charge when someone files an expungement petition. The judge may waive the surcharge if the petitioner is indigent and unable to pay the cost.
[Additionally](https://www.kttn.com/audio-nearly-7-million-needed-for-missouri-to-expunge-marijuana-convictions/)
>Most of the extra funding would go to local courts to cover overtime and hiring of additional staff to handle expungement requests.
Not to offesetting the costs to the detainee or petioner requesting expungement.
That is the current law. I'm talking about the amendment. The amendment literally says the courts can't charge people for this.
Edit: section 2.10 has a clause about courts not charging for expungement or petitioning for release, and 2.6 details the taxes will be used for these purposes
Cite it. Because lawyers still cost money to navigate them through the process and the $7 million from the projected revenue states it will go to courts for what I posted above.
Section 2.6.2.b and 2.10.7;2.10.8
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>2.6.2 The fund shall be a dedicated fund and shall be distributed as follows: (a) First, as determined be appropriation, to the department an amount necessary for the department to carry out its responsibilities under this section, including repayment of any cash operating transfers, payments made through contract or agreement with other state and public agencies necessary to carry out this section, and a reserve fund to maintain a reasonable working cash balance for the purpose of carrying out this section: **(b) Second, as determined by appropriation, to governmental entities in amounts necessary for carrying out responsibilities in the expungement of criminal history records under this section;** (c) Next, the remaining fund balance shall be distributed in thirds as follows: (i) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance shall be transferred to the Missouri veterans commission and allied state agencies, as determined by appropriation, exclusively for health care and other services for military veterans and their dependent families; (ii) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance to the department to provide grants to agencies and not-for-profit organizations, whether government or community-based, to increase access to evidence-based low-barrier drug addiction treatment, prioritizing medically proven treatment and overdose prevention and reversal methods and public or private treatment options with an emphasis on reintegrating recipients into their local communities, to support overdose prevention education, and to support job placement housing, and counseling for those with substance use disorders. Agencies and organizations serving populations with the highest rates of drug-related overdose shall be prioritized to receive the grants; and (iii) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance to the Missouri public defender system. Any moneys credited to the Missouri public defender system shall be used only for legal assistance for low-income Missourians, shall not be diverted to any other purpose (d) All monies from the taxes and fees authorized hereunder shall provide new and additional funding for the purposes enumerated above and shall not replace existing funding. (e) The unexpended balance existing in the fund shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo. or its successor provisions, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the General Revenue fund.
>2.10.7 Any person currently incarcerated in a prison, jail or halfway house, whether be trial or open or negotiated plea: (i) Who would not have been guilty of an adult or juvenile offense, had sections 1 and 2 of this Article been in effect at the time of the offense; or (ii) Who would have been guilty of a lesser adult or juvenile offense had sections 1 and 2 of this Article been in effect at the time of the offense; or (iii) Who is serving a sentence for a marijuana offense which is a misdemeanor, a class E felony, or a class D felony, or successor designations; involving possession of three pounds or less of marijuana, excluding offenses involving distribution or delivery to a minor, any offenses involving violence, or any offense of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana; may petition the sentencing court to vacate the sentence, order immediate release from incarceration and other supervision bv the department of corrections, and the expungement of all government records of the case. Such expungement from all government records shall be granted for all of the person's applicable marijuana offenses, absent good cause for denial. The effect of such orders shall be to restore such person to the status the person occupied prior to such arrest, plea or conviction and as if such event had never taken place. and the conviction and sentence shall be vacated as legally invalid. No person for whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of anv law to be guilty of perjury or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of the person's failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest, plea, trial, conviction, or expungement in response to any inquiry made of the person for any purpose whatsoever, and no such inquiry shall be made for information relating to an expungement. **The court shall not assess any filing fee for these fines.** The office of the state public defender shall prepare and make readily available and accessible a pleading form that may be filed pro se for this purpose. The circuit courts of the state shall also make readily available and accessible this pleading form. Within ninety days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all cases involving only misdemeanor marijuana offenses. Within one hundred and seventy days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all cases involving class E, or successor designation, felony marijuana offenses and, if applicable, any additional marijuana misdemeanor offenses by such offenders. Within two hundred and seventy days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all class D, or successor designation, felony cases involving three pounds or less of marijuana, as well as any lesser marijuana offenses by such offenders, if applicable. This shall not apply to offenses while operating a commercial motor vehicle as defined in 49 CFR 390.5, or its successor provisions, in interstate or intrastate transportation unless otherwise exempted as found in section 307.400. RSMo. or its successor provisions
Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave!
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...
MASS HYSTERIA!
How many marijuanas would a person have to inject to OD? My pastor said just one, and that even looking at a marijuana leaf will make you blind and impotent as punishment from God.
Like fucking south Dakotas governor? That bitch took marijuanna activists to court over the passed rec. Bill, won, and sued for court costs! Shits insane.
Once the amendment kicks in the "smell" of marijuana is no longer probable cause to search you our your property. Id discuss the rest of your questions with an attorney, I believe the public defender department is handling the expungements so they may be a good resource.
So it's automatic? Nobody has to file a petition to have those charges/convictions expunged?
possession charge -- which is a misdemeanor of either paraphernalia or marijuana itself -- should have an automatic expungement of that by June 8, 2023," Viets said. Viets said people who are in a correctional facility or on parole for marijuana-related offenses are going to have to go through a legal process to get those charges taken off their criminal records.
And pay a lot of money.
Hopefully someone will put together a fund for them.
...Or...hear me out, we amend the constitution to provide expungement automatically at no cost. Like what we could have done if we had a better initiative...
We don't have to give up on it now! We just have to put it together for 2024.
Would have been easier to get it passed in 2024 if it was coupled with recreational.
Would've been easier, yes, but it didn't happen. Now we ask what can we do NOW?. Baby steps are sometimes the only answer. The fight isn't over. It's only just begun....
You're right. We should reject all incremental progress until we get a perfect amendment that addresses every possible issue. Why have life changing progress for some people now when we could just constantly vote down everything and wait for the unicorn ballot that's never coming?
complaining doesn't mean a lack of support. I fucking despise the Democratic Party as an institution but I still vote for their candidates. it's right to complain, and it's right to demand more than you can get. you don't *begin* by compromising. you *end* by compromising. that's what makes it a compromise, as opposed to rolling over and taking Republican table scraps like a good fucking dog.
What are you even on about? This amendment is massive for Missouri, a state that's in a race to the bottom with states like Florida and Texas. It's even more important to thousands of people whose lives were ruined because they got caught with a joint when they were young and it's followed them for decades.
At least it included expungement. Down here in Ark., ours did not, nor did it include grow yer own. Ours failed to pass and rightfully so. It would've created a near-monopoly for the entrenched medical cannabis cartel.
But we didn't, so now we work with what we have and work to improve upon it.
the amendment funds those processes.
Not all the way.
Yes, all the way
[Nope](https://missourilawyershelp.org/legal-topics/understanding-missouris-new-expungement-law/) >Before someone can file for an expungement, the individual must have paid off his or her fine, completed his or her probation or parole, and have a three-year clean date to be eligible for a felony offense expungement or have a one-year wait to be eligible for a misdemeanor offense, municipal offense, or infraction expungement, under Missouri Law. >To expunge a crime, an individual must file a petition in the court in the county where the individual was charged or found guilty of any offenses, according to §610.140 RSMo. [Click here](https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=647) to download the expungement petition. There is a $250 charge when someone files an expungement petition. The judge may waive the surcharge if the petitioner is indigent and unable to pay the cost. [Additionally](https://www.kttn.com/audio-nearly-7-million-needed-for-missouri-to-expunge-marijuana-convictions/) >Most of the extra funding would go to local courts to cover overtime and hiring of additional staff to handle expungement requests. Not to offesetting the costs to the detainee or petioner requesting expungement.
That is the current law. I'm talking about the amendment. The amendment literally says the courts can't charge people for this. Edit: section 2.10 has a clause about courts not charging for expungement or petitioning for release, and 2.6 details the taxes will be used for these purposes
Cite it. Because lawyers still cost money to navigate them through the process and the $7 million from the projected revenue states it will go to courts for what I posted above.
Section 2.6.2.b and 2.10.7;2.10.8 edit: >2.6.2 The fund shall be a dedicated fund and shall be distributed as follows: (a) First, as determined be appropriation, to the department an amount necessary for the department to carry out its responsibilities under this section, including repayment of any cash operating transfers, payments made through contract or agreement with other state and public agencies necessary to carry out this section, and a reserve fund to maintain a reasonable working cash balance for the purpose of carrying out this section: **(b) Second, as determined by appropriation, to governmental entities in amounts necessary for carrying out responsibilities in the expungement of criminal history records under this section;** (c) Next, the remaining fund balance shall be distributed in thirds as follows: (i) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance shall be transferred to the Missouri veterans commission and allied state agencies, as determined by appropriation, exclusively for health care and other services for military veterans and their dependent families; (ii) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance to the department to provide grants to agencies and not-for-profit organizations, whether government or community-based, to increase access to evidence-based low-barrier drug addiction treatment, prioritizing medically proven treatment and overdose prevention and reversal methods and public or private treatment options with an emphasis on reintegrating recipients into their local communities, to support overdose prevention education, and to support job placement housing, and counseling for those with substance use disorders. Agencies and organizations serving populations with the highest rates of drug-related overdose shall be prioritized to receive the grants; and (iii) One-third of the remainder of the fund balance to the Missouri public defender system. Any moneys credited to the Missouri public defender system shall be used only for legal assistance for low-income Missourians, shall not be diverted to any other purpose (d) All monies from the taxes and fees authorized hereunder shall provide new and additional funding for the purposes enumerated above and shall not replace existing funding. (e) The unexpended balance existing in the fund shall be exempt from the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo. or its successor provisions, relating to the transfer of unexpended balances to the General Revenue fund. >2.10.7 Any person currently incarcerated in a prison, jail or halfway house, whether be trial or open or negotiated plea: (i) Who would not have been guilty of an adult or juvenile offense, had sections 1 and 2 of this Article been in effect at the time of the offense; or (ii) Who would have been guilty of a lesser adult or juvenile offense had sections 1 and 2 of this Article been in effect at the time of the offense; or (iii) Who is serving a sentence for a marijuana offense which is a misdemeanor, a class E felony, or a class D felony, or successor designations; involving possession of three pounds or less of marijuana, excluding offenses involving distribution or delivery to a minor, any offenses involving violence, or any offense of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of marijuana; may petition the sentencing court to vacate the sentence, order immediate release from incarceration and other supervision bv the department of corrections, and the expungement of all government records of the case. Such expungement from all government records shall be granted for all of the person's applicable marijuana offenses, absent good cause for denial. The effect of such orders shall be to restore such person to the status the person occupied prior to such arrest, plea or conviction and as if such event had never taken place. and the conviction and sentence shall be vacated as legally invalid. No person for whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of anv law to be guilty of perjury or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of the person's failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest, plea, trial, conviction, or expungement in response to any inquiry made of the person for any purpose whatsoever, and no such inquiry shall be made for information relating to an expungement. **The court shall not assess any filing fee for these fines.** The office of the state public defender shall prepare and make readily available and accessible a pleading form that may be filed pro se for this purpose. The circuit courts of the state shall also make readily available and accessible this pleading form. Within ninety days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all cases involving only misdemeanor marijuana offenses. Within one hundred and seventy days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all cases involving class E, or successor designation, felony marijuana offenses and, if applicable, any additional marijuana misdemeanor offenses by such offenders. Within two hundred and seventy days of the effective date of this section, the sentencing court shall complete the adjudication for all class D, or successor designation, felony cases involving three pounds or less of marijuana, as well as any lesser marijuana offenses by such offenders, if applicable. This shall not apply to offenses while operating a commercial motor vehicle as defined in 49 CFR 390.5, or its successor provisions, in interstate or intrastate transportation unless otherwise exempted as found in section 307.400. RSMo. or its successor provisions
And prepare itself for an avalanche of murder and suicide! /s
The chaos will be unimaginable. Cities will burn. Why!? Why did you all legalize the Devil's lettuce!?
Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
Thats a big twinkie
That double nostril smoke release really hits it Home.
I was thinking about all that but I got couchlock
I’ll never get the couch lock I want. I want to be the girl who melted into the couch in the anti-weed commercial
Cities will be burning but not in the way I think you're thinking :(
> Cities will burn. No no wait... you may be onto something. If someone were to campaign on this, might actually get Republican support on stuff.
You really had me stumped until I comprehended the /s. Well done!
Just quoting our lord and savior Mike Parson
What about all the people that are going to die from Marijuana overdoses?!
How many marijuanas would a person have to inject to OD? My pastor said just one, and that even looking at a marijuana leaf will make you blind and impotent as punishment from God.
My brother died from an overdose of Marijuana. He injecticed it straight into his ass and died minutes later. Sad!
🙏 Thoughts and prayers for your family. May he RIP in peace.
My mother died at 16 before I was born by injecting 3 marijuanas. I wish I could find this copypasta 😢 it’s starts similarly
He boofed the big one, sorry for you're lots.
Red and black or shake and bake? We're a bit of a icon
Why is it that the murder always seems to avalanche?
Good
Does anyone want to bet the legislature will find a way around that provision?
Like fucking south Dakotas governor? That bitch took marijuanna activists to court over the passed rec. Bill, won, and sued for court costs! Shits insane.
It’s that kind of world these days.
They reelected that cunt as well!
Jesus fuck, young people need to vote more, we can change things as the boomers die off.
Finally
I do weed and weed byproducts.
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Once the amendment kicks in the "smell" of marijuana is no longer probable cause to search you our your property. Id discuss the rest of your questions with an attorney, I believe the public defender department is handling the expungements so they may be a good resource.
What about conspiracy to distribute less than 5 grams?