Some good news for our listeners who live around the Central Gulf Coast area!
If you live in Mississippi you need to get yourself a medical marijuana card!
Initiative 65 is set to become law after Tuesday’s election results.
Initiative 65 and Initiative 65A were introduced to voters as away to legalize medical marijuana in Mississippi.
Voters were tasked with either choosing one initiative or vetoing both.
Under Initiative 65, The Mississippi State Department of Health has full control over the medical marijuana program. It allows patients with at least one of 22 debilitating medical conditions to use medical marijuana, under the approval of Mississippi licensed physicians and licensed treatment centers.
More than 200,000 people across the state signed a petition to put Initiative 65 on the ballot.
Many major figures in Mississippi came out against Initiative 65, including Governor Tate Reeves and State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 15: Albert Tió, Secretary of the Airam club and President of the Federation of Self-regulated Cannabis Associations of Catalonia, is seen holding a bud of marijuana on October 15, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. Albert Tio has requested the Barcelona City Court to suspend his entry into prison while the Government resolves the pardon he sought. He has been sentenced along with two other members of his cannabis association to 5 years in prison for cultivation of cannabis after an intervention in 2014 . They have had six trials, in three of them they have been acquitted and in the other three they were convicted of collective cultivation. Albert is currently doing social work such as preventive detention as he has no criminal record. He states that he is paying taxes and creating jobs. (Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images)