The state of Missouri just made history with voters backing Amendment 2 and calling for legal marijuana.
Now it’s expected that the state will have 192 medical marijuana dispensaries by the year 2020.
Backers of the Amendment spoke at a conference on Thursday and said that anyone who does not have a “qualifying patient card” would not be able to walk inside the dispensaries.
New Approach Missouri spokesman Jack Cardetti said the state’s medical-marijuana system was modeled in part on medical marijuana laws in the states of Colorado and Oregon, “when they just strictly had a medical-marijuana law.”
“They were very effective,” explained Cardetti.
Each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts will be allowed a minimum of 24 dispensaries under Amendment 2. “We don’t want to have patients having to drive across the state. We want it to be close by,” remarked Cardetti.
Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services will issue the licenses.
