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MISSISSIPPI HAS FINALLY STEPPED TO THE PRECIPICE OF BECOMING THE 38TH MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATE
Fasten your seatbelts, folks, Mississippi’s medical marijuana program is finally fueled-up and revving the engines! Yep, it’s true, after years and years of misfiring and an emotionally exhausting last 14 months of wrestling with ‘the people’s’ Prop 65, the state...
Disenfranchisement on the docket down in Mississippi
August 2021 and what a bizarre time it is. More than three months ago on May 14, 2021, the Mississippi State Supreme Court published their opinion in the case of In Re Initiative Measure No. 65: Mary Hawkins Butler v. Michael Watson, Secretary of State. Henceforth,...
It’s official – Louisiana has flower! (in 2022)
It is done! Governor John Bel Edwards has now signed the "flower bill" (HB 391) that so many Louisianans helped support with calls, emails, social media posts, and in-person lobbying at "The People's House" (Louisiana State Capitol). Hard to overstate what a big...
Say no to Tanner’s Tax – the unconstitutional and regressive sales tax on Cannabis medicine!
On Wednesday, May 19th, the Louisiana Senate is set to debate HB514. It would tax, for the first time since 2003, a medicine. The state Constitution unambiguously forbids a sales tax on prescription drugs. Proponents of this regressive and indefensible tax on medical...
Hey Mississippi, let’s call it what it is: Voter Disenfranchisement
Ever heard of the "Doctrine of Absurdity"? Probably not, but it's a real thing. It also applies very fittingly to Mississippi and their Supreme Court's absurd decision inexcusibly handed down on Friday, May 14th in the case of (Madison, MS Mayor) Mary Hawkins Butler...
No Justice from the Justices in Mississippi
What's missing in Mississippi today? Any sense of justice. In its place, at least for now, is a persistent sense of cowardice, injustice and even evidence of malignancy for forms of political corruption that have overtaken too many public officials and entire bodies...
Louisiana needs medicinal Cannabis flower. Louisiana shouldn’t tax the medicine.
10 GOOD REASONS TO OPPOSE HB 514 - THE TAX ON MEDICAL CANNABIS FLOWER Louisiana has a Constitutional prohibition against taxing prescription drugs. This means that if we pass a tax on flower, we'll then have no tax on oxycontin, fentanyl or other opiates and opioids...