Lawmakers met for the second time as they evaluate the possibility of medical and even a recreational marijuana program in Mississippi.
Last week’s second hearing by state Senate Health and Welfare Committee on medical marijuana showed that there is plenty of real estate between those who are against any sort of program, supporters of a very limited program and those who want a more liberalized, free-market system or even a recreational one. It was the second of two hearings by the committee, which held the first on June 3. Lawmakers are trying to fill the void left by Initiative 65, which was passed by 56 percent of the state’s voters and was struck down by the state Supreme Court along with the state’s entire ballot initiative process over a technicality on congressional districts.
The options presented could include:
A strictly limited medical program like Utah or Alabama which doesn’t allow smokeable cannabis, strict limits on the psychoative substance THC in cannabis products and only a limited number of retailers and patients allowed to utilize the system. While there likely wouldn’t be a three-tier system like with alcohol distribution (where the three tiers of production, distribution and sales are kept independent by law), the number of permits for dispensaries would be capped.
Utah state Sen. Evan Vickers,…
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Lawmakers met for the second time as they evaluate the possibility of medical and even a recreational marijuana program in Mississippi.
Last week’s second hearing by state Senate Health and Welfare Committee on medical marijuana showed that there is plenty of real estate between those who are against any sort of program, supporters of a very limited program and those who want a more liberalized, free-market system or even a recreational one. It was the second of two hearings by the committee, which held the first on June 3. Lawmakers are trying to fill the void left by Initiative 65, which was passed by 56 percent of the state’s voters and was struck down by the state Supreme Court along with the state’s entire ballot initiative process over a technicality on congressional districts.
The options presented could include:
A strictly limited medical program like Utah or Alabama which doesn’t allow smokeable cannabis, strict limits on the psychoative substance THC in cannabis products and only a limited number of retailers and patients allowed to utilize the system. While there likely wouldn’t be a three-tier system like with alcohol distribution (where the three tiers of production, distribution and sales are kept independent by law), the number of permits for dispensaries would be capped.
Utah state Sen. Evan Vickers,…
