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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 07:22 AM Jan 2022

Against 'Illogical Beliefs,' Medical Marijuana Earns Mississippi Senate Approval In 47-5 Vote

As Sen. Kevin Blackwell took the chamber floor Thursday morning, the DeSoto County Republican began reciting the words of a Bob Dylan song: “Well, they’ll stone you when you’re trying to be so good. They’ll stone you just like they said they would. They’ll stone you when you’re walking on the street. They’ll stone you when you’re trying to keep your seat.”

He was introducing Senate Bill 2095, the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act, which his fellow senators would pass later that afternoon in a 47-to-5 vote despite Gov. Tate Reeves’ threats to veto the bill. It would allow patients to receive up to 3.5 ounces a month for treatment for 28 qualifying illnesses.

Lawmakers drafted the legislation after the Mississippi Supreme Court struck down Initiative 65, a medical-marijuana program that voted overwhelmingly approved in 2020. If the bill becomes law, patients must obtain a diagnosis and a medical-marijuana card in order to become eligible for treatment. Medical marijuana would be taxed at the point of sale with the state’s 7% sales tax and with an additional 5% excise tax.

Despite strict regulations on who can obtain medical marijuana, the governor has described the bill as “recreational” and demanded greater quantity limits.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/19670/medical-marijuana-earns-mississippi-senate-approval-in-47-5-vote/

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Against 'Illogical Beliefs,' Medical Marijuana Earns Mississippi Senate Approval In 47-5 Vote (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
Re-Publicans smoking dope multigraincracker Jan 2022 #1
Here in Idaho, our legislature tried to restrict voter initiatives because they know medical brewens Jan 2022 #2
There is too much money to be made. Chainfire Jan 2022 #3
Keep them Mississippi folks coming up to Illinois for their needs. We'll take their money. Midnight Writer Jan 2022 #4
 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
2. Here in Idaho, our legislature tried to restrict voter initiatives because they know medical
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 08:07 AM
Jan 2022

marijuana will pass. Maybe full legalization too.

It's really what I call the "eat shit factor" the RW is afraid of. Their worst fear is that it passes, and legal weed is no big deal, or even brings in a lot of revenue and is a big success. That's a big middle finger right in the face of the rednecks that still want to lock people up for it. They sit in their inbred alcohol junkie support groups fuming over even the possibility! LOL

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