Mississippi’s Governor Tate Reeves will not be signing marijuana legislation unless the legal amount is greatly reduced according to reports.
The governor said he’s willing to sign a bill but not as currently structured.
“Unlike any other drug, this program allows virtually unlimited access to marijuana once you qualify. There is no pharmacist involved and no doctor setting the amount,” Reeves wrote in a social media post this week.
According to Reeves, it is concerning that the legislation would allow more than a billion legal joints sold in Mississippi each year.
“Call me crazy, but I just think that’s too broad of a starting point,” he wrote.
The governor thinks that the number allowed should be cut in half.
“I cannot put my name on a bill that puts that much marijuana on the streets of Mississippi,” Reeves wrote.
It was last year that over 74 percent of Mississippi voters approved Initiative 65, which allowed patients to purchase up to five ounces of medical marijuana every month.
The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned it months later.
Littke has been done to get a revised plan to legalize medical marijuana in the state.
“This program was supposed to have been up and running already,” Citizens Alliance of Mississippi founder Shea Dobson said in November. “I mean, we were supposed to have had medical marijuana in place right now as we speak. And every day that goes by every day, the Governor moves the goalposts, we continue to see patients suffer more.”
