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  Missouri Man’s Life Sentence for Marijuana is Commuted

  May 23, 2015 at 9:51 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics

  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Governor Jay Nixon commuted the sentence for Missouri’s only man serving life in prison for non-violent marijuana-related offenses. Jeff Mizanskey, now 62, was arrested during an undercover drug bust in Sedalia in 1993. He was sentenced in 1996 under the state’s Prior and Persistent Drug Offender Law, which is a three-strike system. FOX 2 Now reported that at the time of Mizanskey’s arrest, police were after a drug dealer who hired two men to smuggled more than [...]

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  St. Louis Mayor Signs Marijuana Decriminalization Law

  May 10, 2013 at 5:51 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Those caught in St. Louis with small amounts of marijuana will get a break starting next month. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Mayor Francis Slay has signed a measure that gives police the option to redistribute some marijuana cases to municipal court. Starting June 1, violators will typically be given a summons to appear in municipal court rather than handcuffed and taken to the police station. Under the existing law, those caught with 1 to 35 grams face misdemeanor charges, [...]

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