The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act now heads to Gov. Tate Reeves with super-majority support from the House and Senate. With a vote of 103-13, the House passed a version of the act that slightly modified the amended version the House sent back to the Senate on January 19, 2022. Gov. Reeves can either sign the act into law, allow the act to sit for five days (Sunday excluded), after which time the act will become law, or veto the act only to most assuredly have that veto be overridden by the supermajority support of the act in both chambers of the legislature. Absent a wild turn of events, medical cannabis is now a reality in Mississippi.
A full version of the act, passed in the form of a conference committee report, is here. With some modification from the version we previously summarized, the act, among other things, establishes a tiered medical marijuana program consisting of cultivators, processors, testing facilities, research facilities, transporters, dispensaries, and disposal entities, authorizes additional agency regulation by the Mississippi Department of Health (MDOH) and Department of Revenue (MDOR), prohibits outdoor growing, permits smoking of medical cannabis, allows counties and municipalities to opt out of the program, imposes state sales and excise taxes, and provides certain safe harbor protections to employers and financial institutions.
Highlights include:
“Cannabis cultivation facility” is an entity...
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