JACKSON, Miss. — Patients have started buying medical marijuana in Mississippi, nearly a year after the products were legalized in the state. The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Assn. said in a news release Thursday that the first purchases happened Wednesday at the Cannabis Co. in Brookhaven and at two dispensaries in Oxford — Hybrid Relief and Star Buds.
JACKSON, Miss. —
Patients have started buying medical marijuana in Mississippi, nearly a year after the products were legalized in the state.
The Mississippi Medical Marijuana Assn. said in a news release Thursday that the first purchases happened Wednesday at the Cannabis Co. in Brookhaven and at two dispensaries in Oxford — Hybrid Relief and Star Buds.
“We have been working since 2018 to get medical marijuana in the hands of patients in Mississippi, and it’s surreal to see it finally come to fruition,” Ken Newburger, executive director of the association, said in the release. “This is only the beginning. More and more businesses will be harvesting, testing and getting their products on the shelves in the coming months.”
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