Missouri - We missed this when it first aired but it's worth mentioning that the folks over at KSDK actually did a very respectable job tackling the issue of medical marijuana last week. The station profiled Don Yarber, the 70-year-old mayor of Cottleville, Missouri, who supports prescription pot because his wife used it to treat the side-effects of her chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
With Yarber's support, Cottleville -- a city of about 3,000 people, located southwest of St. Charles -- recently passed a resolution urging state leaders to move forward with medical marijuana legislation. Yarber is pressing for a state-wide ballot initiative.
Not that it really means anything -- Cottleville is a long, long way from Jefferson City -- but it's still an interesting example of the grassroots, non-partisan support that the medical cannabis issue is capable of generating, even in the ultra-conservative parts of Missouri. Plus it's fun to hear an old geezer like Yarber expound on the benefits of puffin' the old cheeba cheeba.
If this all sounds eerily familiar it's because Cottleville isn't the first Missouri backwater to pass pro-Marijuana legislation. The original pot hole was Cliff Village, a tiny suburb of Joplin...
News story on Cliff Village, published last February
News Hawk- Weedpipe 420 Magazine - Cannabis Culture News & Reviews
Source: St. Louis News - Daily RFT
Author: Keegan Hamilton
Contact: St. Louis News - Daily RFT - Riverfront Times
Copyright: 2010 Village Voice Media
Website:Welcome to Cottleville, Missouri's Newest Pot Hole
With Yarber's support, Cottleville -- a city of about 3,000 people, located southwest of St. Charles -- recently passed a resolution urging state leaders to move forward with medical marijuana legislation. Yarber is pressing for a state-wide ballot initiative.
Not that it really means anything -- Cottleville is a long, long way from Jefferson City -- but it's still an interesting example of the grassroots, non-partisan support that the medical cannabis issue is capable of generating, even in the ultra-conservative parts of Missouri. Plus it's fun to hear an old geezer like Yarber expound on the benefits of puffin' the old cheeba cheeba.
If this all sounds eerily familiar it's because Cottleville isn't the first Missouri backwater to pass pro-Marijuana legislation. The original pot hole was Cliff Village, a tiny suburb of Joplin...
News story on Cliff Village, published last February
News Hawk- Weedpipe 420 Magazine - Cannabis Culture News & Reviews
Source: St. Louis News - Daily RFT
Author: Keegan Hamilton
Contact: St. Louis News - Daily RFT - Riverfront Times
Copyright: 2010 Village Voice Media
Website:Welcome to Cottleville, Missouri's Newest Pot Hole
