On February 3, 2022, Mississippi became the 37th state to legalize medical cannabis, following in Louisiana’s and Alabama’s footsteps as the first movers in the Deep South.
Earlier this year, a Michigan woman named Erika Prock set out on a road trip with her 18-month-old son to pick up her husband Todd from her in-laws along the Mississippi-Alabama border.
On Monday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed off on the state’s medical cannabis bill, SB 46, making Alabama the 36th state to legalize medical cannabis.
As a child, Prattville native Jeffrey Lee remembers playing in cotton fields. These days, his own son and daughter run in a much different crop. “I’ve sat out there and watched my kids playing in all this hemp growing 10 or 11 foot high,” Lee said. Life as a full-time medicinal hemp farmer in AutaugaRead More
And then there were eight. That is, as marijuana legalization bills have been formally introduced this month in Alabama and Pennsylvania, the number of states to see such bills this year is up to eight.