Republican voters will choose a candidate to challenge Democratic U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson in primary runoffs today.
Medical-cannabis patient Becky Henderson suffered a spinal-cord injury in a car wreck when she was 21 years old, leaving the lower half of her body paralyzed. The Gulfport, Miss., resident gets around in a motorized wheelchair and can only leave her house a couple of times a month. During a meeting of the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee on Dec. 20, 2023, Henderson proposed a series of changes to the state’s marijuana program.
The largest of Mississippi’s medical marijuana testing labs has had its license temporarily suspended while a third party retests cannabis products.
The Mississippi State Department of Health has placed an administrative hold on all medical-cannabis products tested by Rapid Analytics.
Mississippi’s medical-marijuana advertising ban is preventing a dispensary from attracting customers, Tru Source owner Clarence Cocroft says.
Pauline Rogers, who runs the RECH Foundation, a nonprofit that provides post-incarceration support, says the marijuana possession pardon that President Joe Biden announced on Oct. 6, 2022, was “long overdue.”
Hinds County leaders said many applicants are showing up with marijuana in their system when they apply for jobs, disqualifying them from employment.
Thousands of Mississippians with specific medical conditions will soon be able to receive medical-marijuana treatment with a physician’s approval after Gov. Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act into law late Wednesday.
Medical marijuana came a step closer to becoming a reality in Mississippi this afternoon as lawmakers in the Mississippi House of Representatives voted to approve a bill that would legalize it for some patients in the Magnolia State.
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