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Mississippi native Jasmine Cochran s heard it all her life: If you don t like it, change it.
So she did what she was told.
Cochran voted for Initiative 65 last fall to amend the constitution and legalize medical marijuana. That s what she wanted for her mother suffering with fibromyalgia a disorder causing widespread bodily pain and her father recently diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer.
She was part of the the overwhelming majority of Mississippi voters who passed the initiative in November.
Tuesday morning, in front of over 200 people gathered near the Mississippi Supreme Court for the We are the 74 rally, Cochran isn t celebrating that win. She s fighting for it.
Tennessee this year banned transgender athletes from playing girls public school sports and is poised to become the first state to require government buildings and businesses to post signs if they let trans people use multiperson bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity. Under another new law, schools can be sued if they let transgender students or employees use multiperson bathrooms or locker rooms that do not reflect their sex at birth.
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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what s
happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
The Mississippi Supreme Court struck down the state s
medical marijuana ballot initiative. Alabama, moving in the
opposite direction, legalized medical cannabis. On the federal
level, Republicans proposed decriminalizing marijuana. The
DEA moved forward on cannabis research (really!). And
finally, a racehorse tested positive for CBD.
MISSISSIPPI
Legal medical marijuana had a short life in
Mississippi. Approved by the voters in November 2020, it
died this week in the state s Supreme Court, where the justices
Gov. Tate Reeves made three appointments last week to the Mississippi Community College Board — appointments from the same five congressional districts that resulted in the demise of a medical