Jackson Jambalaya

Nothing like being late to the game...

It will be 80-20 against. If Clinton voters approved this, then every town in Mississippi will pass it, but don’t hold your breath. City leaders are pushing hard against it. It’s still a sleepy Baptist town stuck in 1940.

this is the same BS the state pulled with liquor in the 60's .
its a plant put here by God for us to use .
Budweiser and big Pharm do not want the competition and Baptist church is against anything fun or helpfull

Stoners need their "medicine," but they can do that in the nearby lawless town of Jackson. Of course there is no guarantee that they won't get "jacked" at one of Jackson's stoner stores.

No need to go to Jackson 7:56. Take the scenic route over to Edwards or Bovina.

7:56, there's not an open dispensary in Jackson yet. Folks have to Canton or Vicksburg for their MC.

Why all the criticism of the people of Clinton and how they may or may not vote? It's their community, let them decide. If there were more towns like Clinton you guys would have less of which to be critical. P.S. I don't live in Clinton, know anyone who does, or have any interest in Clinton.

Go to one of the public parks....... marijuana is already there as in most public parks through out the area.

Just curious how many people in Clinton really need "Medical" Marijuana? Or anywhere for that matter. The "stoners out there" just want the good stuff and I guess 40 years ago I would have too, but today I would vote No. Let them drive.

Not many 'cards' have been issued. The process is terribly laborious, time intensive for dispensaries, approval of practitioners and patients and a thousand ridiculous requirements and rules. There is a literal maze of red-tape.

Computer programs have been linked to or purchased from out of state 'partners', the health department is still trying to hire enough people and get them trained to handle the approval process whether at computer terminals or handling phone inquiries from the public, practitioners, care-givers and dispensaries.

It'll be a year or more before this thing smoothes out, if ever. It'll put the whiskey warehouse debacle in the shade.

It's as if the parts for a space shuttle have just been delivered to Canton-Nissan and the current employees there told to get busy and assemble it.

@8:20 AM - Nope! Try to keep up. There is one stoner store open in Jackson. https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2023/02/28/first-jackson-cannabis-dispensary-opens/69948584007/

I don’t get the late to the game comment. This is the first city to vote to overturn their government’s decision to opt out.

The ONLY way these growers and dispensaries will make it financially is if medical mariyuana becomes anyone's marijuana. There is not and will not be enough medicall marijuana $$ to float the boat in their MS undertaking.

Also, it is easily available on the street-without the red tape.

@10:45 AM - Does "red tape" include the cost of bail, a criminal defense attorney, loss of wages, ingesting fentanyl laced pot, and jail time? Asking for a friend.

Yes, the hidden agenda is legalizing it as recreational marijuana, as that is where the money is. These carpet baggers pushing this are not being altruistic, nor are they concerned about getting "medicine" to MS "patients." They are in it for the Benjamins, period.

10:45 - Although there's a risk, it's not likely that one will get shot in the head while transacting business down to the local dispensary.

We have no certain way of knowing, but this blog has been full of report of people who actually risked going into Jackson to buy drugs and wound up dead.

11:20 Facts!!!!

I don't know why we NEED alcohol sales. It seems to be far more destructive and offers zero medicinal value.
I don't smoke and only rarely drink, but if we are arguing honestly that drugs are bad...we really need to include booze as a drug that should be illegal.

@10:45 AM - Go ahead and give Battlefield Park a try for getting your weed. What could possibly go wrong?

The push has always been about legalizing recreational marijuana. AR opened up medical marijuana for business in 2019. A vote was forced for recreational marijuana in November of 2022 by the same people who pushed for medical marijuana in AR and now in MS. The vote failed. AR and MS both allow the smoking of weed for medical - Lee Yancey, who had been bought out by the marijuana industry, calls smoking weed the flower- got to be politically correct. They will push for recreational marijuana in MS as soon as possible. It is not expected that AL will have this problem because they do not allow smoking in their medical marijuana laws. There is no benefit for smoking marijuana medically when marijuana extraction can be used in a nebulizer for much more effective treatment. AL listened to Colorado leaders and Oklahoma leaders. Yancey sold out to big money. And so did the conservative MS legislature. The mayor of Clinton and those Alderman who oppose it - they are wise, prudent leaders. The alderman in Clinton who is in the medical field- she is highly ignorant, sold out or both.

All this delay and red tape while, tragically, stoners up and down the state have hangnails so painful that they are just about to die.

12:10 PM, haven't you ever heard of medical alcohol? It is made from plants. Probably saved a lot more lives then medical weed. Why is the product of one plant considered so good but the product of another plant considered so bad?

12:39, thanks Phil.

It’s a matter of when, not if. Clinton has an older population, so MM has no chance today. But the no votes are dying off, just like the flag supporters.

@11:20 never heard of fentanyl laced pot. That is just stupid. What kind of profit would come from that? Not a sound business model.

You obviously have never smoked weed and it shows.....

They should vote yes, at least numb the locals pain from living there. People can only eat Mazios pizza and DQ for so long before they go stir crazy from boredom, at least they are high.

"I don’t get the late to the game comment. This is the first city to vote to overturn their government’s decision to opt out."

My bad, and I apologize. I posted the 'late to the game comment' thinking Clinton as a city was just now coming around to voting on whether or not to allow dispensaries.

I'm not up on the timeline or process for voting to overturn, as seems to be the case here.

1:23, fair.
So keep rubbing alcohol legal and make the rest illegal.

To be clear, I don't smoke or drink and I WANT BOTH to be legal and taxed and available to all. I'm a grown up so I don't need the government to keep me off drugs. And I don't begrudge anyone the right to drink or smoke.

I am just so tired of the pearl-clutchers fainting over weed and then consuming a bottle of wine and often driving. Either they are both drugs and ban them. Or sell them both. The drunks who are scared of weed just make me laugh.

12:39 - Smokable Cannabis is called 'flower' because that is the legal definition of that form in the law. The term flower distinguishes it from other forms, i.e. concentrate and infused.

The information provided to the health department database by the practitioner has checkoffs for which types are recommended for the patient. The practitioner also recommends period of time, week, month supply. That goes on the card when issued and is viewed by the dispensary.

Don't fault Yancy for being correct. You might try that.

12:39 was probably marching in 1965 in favor of continued prohibition. Lips that touch wine will never touch mine, and similar nonsense. Devil's brew. Hell's handbasket.

The Mississippi law clearly states that no state, county or municipal law agency will enforce the federal statute making 'legal possession' and the ownership or purchase of a firearm, illegal. Although the feds still 'might'.

It's unknown whether law enforcement will have access to the MM database, but the law says they 'could' have.

Jurisdictions such as The Natchez Trace are a different matter since their LEO are federal. There are also federal game wardens all over the state.

Up until about 14 years ago, it was a violation of federal law to have a loaded firearm in your vehicle on The Natchez Trace. An unloaded firearm was not a violation. Now that's changed to mirror the prevailing local area or state law.

As with ROE, this MM thing is another example of 'be careful what you wish for'.

Who cares at this point? The 2018 farm bill basically legalized recreational weed nationwide. Anyone reading this can visit just about any independent convenience store in Mississippi and legally purchase Delta 8-10 products (gummies, pre rolls, vape pens, etc.). Hell, you can even legally order the stuff online and have the USPS deliver it to your door. There are zero barriers to getting stoned

Weed is de facto legal already. At least local dispensaries keep more tax dollars close to home.

@1:29, so many no votes on changing the flag died off that Delbert, Phil, and the entire legislature didn't see the need to let the people vote on the measure.

And stoners say again, "Aw, man."