The case against a Jefferson City woman who claimed Missouri's 2014 right-to-farm amendment included her right to grow marijuana in her basement has been dismissed.
A trial had been scheduled for Lisa Loesch next week.
Prosecutors dismissed the case after Loesch, 53, was sentenced to two years in prison after a Cole County jury found her guilty of DWI and assault on a law enforcement officer following a trial in February. The incident occurred in January 2015 at a parking lot at 2101 Schotthill Woods Drive, where Loesch bumped into another car. Loesch became belligerent with the Jefferson City police officer who arrested her and she refused to give a blood sample under Missouri law.
Cole County grand jurors indicted Loesch in October 2012, saying she "knowingly manufactured and produced more than five grams of marijuana, a controlled substance, by growing, planting, cultivating and harvesting it."
Public defender Justin Carver had taken Loesch's case to higher courts asking them to cancel the indictment, arguing Missouri's voter-approved right-to-farm amendment protected Loesch from being charged with the crime, but the higher courts declined to hear the case and said the case could go to trial in Cole County Court.