To the Editor,
Regarding Amendment 3, on the ballot this November, regardless of how you feel about the legalization of marijuana, this is not the proper way to go about it.
This amendment sets out specific criminal penalties for various infractions. This is not the way to write law, that should be done by the legislature.
In the future, if Amendment 3 passes, if the state wished to reduce or increase penalties for violations, it would be impossible without changing the Constitution.
Amendment 3 creates a Constitutional “Chief Equity Officer,” mandated to create “public education programming”— ie, creating a Constitutional mandate using the government of the State of Missouri to produce Critical Race Theory indoctrination. It even explicitly prevents any “elected official” from providing oversight for this position.
Missouri’s marijuana monopoly has partnered with radical groups, including ACLU, Empower Missouri and the Reale Justice Project to pass this radical proposal and protect their monopoly. That is another aspect of the amendment, it Constitutionally protects a Monopoly.
Legalization is most likely coming, sooner or later. Work for it, if you are so inclined, or against it, if that is how you think. Either way, this is a bad way to do it, and there is too much buried in 37 pages of legalese.
Thank you, Fred Perkins, Franklin County Republican Central Committeeman, Boone Township
