'Long time overdue': Mississippi Legislature sends medical marijuana bill to governor

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The Legislature with little debate and overwhelming vote margins on Wednesday sent to the governor a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Mississippi.

by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today‘Long time overdue’: Mississippi Legislature sends medical marijuana bill to governor by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today January 26, 2022 "I'm so excited for the patients of Mississippi," said Angie Calhoun, founder of the Mississippi Cannabis Patients Alliance and mother of a son who suffered seizures and other chronic problems and at one point moved out of the state to use medical cannabis.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

 

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So we can just grow it and consume is because of the 9th and 14th Amendments or does this just put the government in charge of our medicine after pretending that it isn’t medicine?

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