Mississippi medical cannabis sales could begin this week
Medical cannabis sales in Mississippi could commence this week.
Medical cannabis sales in Mississippi could commence this week.
Attorney Laura Goodson, attorney for the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program, was appointed the agency’s acting director.
Marijuana industry entrepreneurs and investors, exhausted and eager to catch a break after a difficult year of declining sales, tumbling prices, and vanishing capital, believe relief is on its way from an unlikely quarter: the U.S. Congress.
The largest licensed medical cannabis grower in Mississippi was ordered to destroy about 5,000 plants, which state regulators estimated were worth roughly $1 million.
Medical cannabis is on track to be on Mississippi dispensary shelves in January 2023, state health officials said, though barely 400 patients are currently approved to access the drug.
The Mississippi government has collected millions of dollars in revenue from medical marijuana businesses, even though MMJ sales have not yet begun.
Mississippi medical marijuana dispensaries could begin sales as early as November, according to the leader of a cannabis trade association in the state.