Gov. Reeves Signs Medical Marijuana Law; Allows Fewer Patients Than Initiative 65
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. In recent months, he has expressed reservations about the law, but both chambers of the Legislature passed the bill with veto-proof majorities.
“The ‘medical marijuana bill’ has consumed an enormous amount of space on the front pages of legacy media outlets across Mississippi over the last 3+ years,” the governor said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon. “There is no doubt that there are individuals in our state who could do significantly better if they had access to medically prescribed doses of cannabis.
“There are also those who really want a recreational marijuana program that could lead to more people smoking and less people working with all of the societal and family ills that that brings.”
(Statistics show that Colorado’s labor force participation rate is about the same as it was when that state legalized recreational marijuana in 2012 despite a pandemic dip in 2020).
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