FLORENCE, Miss. (WLBT) - State leaders met at Singletary Hemp Farm in Florence Tuesday to talk about expanding the hemp industry in Mississippi.Hemp contains tiny amounts of THC and large amounts of CBD. People can cultivate it in Mississippi, but...

August 4, 2021

PRENTISS, Miss. (WLBT) - An industrial hemp processing plant is set to open in Jefferson Davis County.The Prentiss board of aldermen approved the leasehold agreement for the 78,500 square foot building with Leaf River Extraction.Leaf River Extract...

July 16, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The fate of medical marijuana now rests in the Mississippi legislature’s hands after the state Supreme Court struck down Initiative 65 earlier this year.It’s no longer a question of, should there be a medical ma...

July 5, 2021

This week, Mississippi held a meeting to talk about legalizing cannabis, and heard testimony from folks in other states who vouched for legalization. The testimony was brought before the Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee. This...

June 29, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee met for a second time to hear testimony on the effect a medical marijuana program could have on the state. The state Supreme Court ruled in May that a voter-app...

June 29, 2021

Mississippi lawmakers pondering a medical marijuana program heard on Monday from colleagues from two ends of the spectrum: Utah, which strictly regulates medical marijuana, and Oklahoma, whose program is so open it resembles recreational marijuana...

June 28, 2021

Gov. Tate Reeves expressed his support for a legislative special session to reimplement a state medical marijuana program this Tuesday at a Lee County press event. The state Supreme Court struck the program from law on May 14. Photo courtesy State...

June 16, 2021

Gov. Tate Reeves is adamant that he will not call a special session to enact medical marijuana and to fix the ballot initiative process until legislative leadership reaches a consensus on how to deal with the separate but related issues. In May, ...

June 13, 2021

Medical Marijuana gettyCan you imagine a place where over 300,000 voters overwhelmingly pass a law only to have 7 governing elites overturn it with a bogus lawsuit? Welcome to Mississippi. In a stunning turn of political events, the Sup...

June 7, 2021

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The leader of the organization that sponsored the voter-approved Mississippi medical marijuana initiative that was recently blocked in court says the program should be changed and improved by the state Legislature ̵...

June 3, 2021

In a divided opinion, the Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld Allen Russell’s sentence to life imprisonment without parole for the nonviolent offense of possessing marijuana, rejecting his argument that the punishment does not fit the crime....

May 27, 2021

Carolyn Prisock had a brain tumor removed 15 years ago, and suffers debilitating migraines and side effects from medications — one caused her to temporarily lose her eyesight. Prisock was hopeful that the medical marijuana program Mississip...

May 25, 2021