Mississippi is now the 37th state in the U.S. to legalize medical marijuana.
On Wednesday, the state of Mississippi voted to legalize the medical use of marijuana.
According to the New York Post, Mississippians can now purchase up to three ounces of cannabis per month to use for ailments and other health-related conditions.
Before they get their weed, Mississippians must be diagnosed by a licensed healthcare professional with any of the qualifying conditions. Some of the conditions that allow a person in Mississippi to be cleared for medical cannabis use include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), cancer, AIDS, sickle cell disease, among others.
“There is no doubt that there are individuals in our state who could do significantly better if they had access to medically prescribed doses of cannabis,” wrote Republican Gov. Tate Reeves wrote in a Twitter statement. “There are also those who really want a recreational marijuana program that could lead to more people smoking and less people working, with all the societal and family ills that that brings.”
The law also allows cannabis to be prescribed for “pain state in which the cause of the pain cannot be removed or otherwise treated … and which no relief or cure of the cause of the pain is possible,” NPR reports.
