1st legal sales of Mississippi medical marijuana are made - Fox News

Patients person started buying medical marijuana successful Mississippi, astir a twelvemonth aft the products were legalized successful the state.

The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Association said successful a quality merchandise Thursday that the archetypal purchases happened Wednesday astatine The Cannabis Company successful Brookhaven and astatine 2 dispensaries successful Oxford — Hybrid Relief and Star Buds.

"We person been moving since 2018 to get aesculapian marijuana successful the hands of patients successful Mississippi, and it’s surreal to spot it yet travel to fruition," Ken Newburger, enforcement manager of the association, said successful the release. "This is lone the beginning. More and much businesses volition beryllium harvesting, testing, and getting their products connected the shelves successful the coming months."

WLOX-TV reported that much than 1,700 patients are enrolled successful Mississippi’s aesculapian marijuana program. Among them is Tom Goldman, who said helium has Parkinson's illness and chronic genu pain.

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Goldman told the TV presumption that the Mississippi State Department of Health activated his aesculapian paper and alerted him by email Sunday.

"I’ve been waiting for this time for truthful agelong - smoking marijuana legally," Goldman said. "I thought I would beryllium dormant earlier this time showed up."

A bulk of Mississippi voters approved a aesculapian marijuana inaugural successful November 2020. The authorities Supreme Court invalidated it six months aboriginal by ruling that the state’s inaugural process was outdated and the measurement was not enactment decently connected the ballot.

Mississippi had their archetypal ineligible merchantability of aesculapian marijuana connected Wednesday since the instrumentality was passed successful November 2020. 

Early successful 2022, the Republican-controlled Legislature passed a measure authorizing the merchantability of aesculapian marijuana. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the measure Feb. 2, 2022, and it became instrumentality immediately. Establishing regulations and businesses took months, and immoderate communities opted retired of allowing facilities that turn oregon merchantability the products.

Elizabeth Cavanaugh, proprietor of Coastal Capital Dispensary, told WLOX it is an "extreme relief" to determination toward being capable to dispense products to patients.

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"We’ve been talking to radical connected the phones since November each azygous time and the stories we perceive sometimes are heartbreaking but besides hopeful due to the fact that we cognize that it’s coming and present it’s yet here," Cavanaugh said.