State Senate passes medical marijuana bill, now moves to the House

(WDAM) — It’s out with the old and in with the new when it comes to medical marijuana in the state of Mississippi. The State Senate passed the ‘Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act’ Thursday. It’s a bill with what we’re told are very similar components to Initiative 65, which is the medical marijuana initiative the state Supreme Court overturned last year. According to Fillingane, the bill measures medical marijuana in a unit called the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Equivalency Unit. The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act also added three diseases to the list that would potentially qualify a patient for eligibility to get medical marijuana.