This is a small list of United States Patents for Cannabis. All the while cannabis is on the Controlled Substance Act as a Schedule 1 - meaning it has no medicinal value and is highly addictive.

ElSohly Laboratories, Incorporated (ELI) is a privately held Mississippi Corporation certified by DHHS and the College of American Pathologists and registered with DEA and FDA, which has been offering analytical and advisory services to the drug testing community since 1985.

Learn more about Missouri's Hemp History.  Missouri was the nation’s leader in hemp production, and more than half of Missouri’s crop came from the seven counties of Little Dixie.


Drawing of the First Battle of Lexington, aka the Battle of the Hemp Bales. 

Pursuant to Section 192.945, RSMo, and 19 CSR 20-51.010, the Missouri Hemp Extract Registration Program provides Missouri residents with intractable epilepsy a registration card that allows them to legally possess and use CBD oil in Missouri to treat intractable epilepsy.

I know Hemp will save our planet. Hemp is the key to ending so many environmental concerns. If marijuana is the million dollar cash crop then hemp is the billion dollar cash crop.

A youth detention center, juvenile detention center (JDC),  juvenile detention, juvenile hall or - juvie, is a prison for people under the age of majority- when a young person reaches the age where one is considered to be an adult. Depending upon your state law, this usually happens at some point between 18 and 21.

A private prison - for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies enter into contractual agreements with governments that house inmates; and then pay a per diem, or monthly rate, either for each prisoner in the facility, or for each place available- regardless it the bed is occupied or not.

I believe the prison industrial complex is out of control. When people and organizations start profiting from those who are incarcerated we have a problem. When the judicial branch starts putting buying prison stock with pension pay it has become a conflict of interest. Yes, for profit prisons sell stock.

I believe that the bail/bond industry is exasperating our judicial system. Bail bond agents are yet another cog in the wheel. Another person, business, or organization making money off of people who are innocent till proven guilty. Ironically, Bail bond agents are almost exclusively found in the United States. Ironically, here in Missouri the arresting officer sets your bond? If you bond out your bond could disqualify you from a public defender.