EDITOR’S Notice: This is the 2nd in a collection of tales on health care cannabis, which was handed into regulation in Mississippi on Feb. 2. Aspect I, released in the Feb. 6 edition, concentrated on what professional medical marijuana consumers will require to know. Today’s story focuses on manufacturing and distribution of health-related cannabis. Part III will search into the financial impression of health-related marijuana.
Seven yrs ago, Deneisha Glenn was a kindergarten trainer at Sale Elementary Faculty in Columbus.
Though she appreciated operating with the children, Glenn felt an irresistible urge to come to be an entrepreneur. With each other with her sister, Amber, they started out their individual human assets company, providing companies that ranged from doing history checks to recruiting to drug testing.
“But even as we have been starting up our HR firm … I was always seeking for the next possibility,” Glenn stated. “We commenced pondering about professional medical marijuana most likely four or 5 yrs in the past.”
That was about the time the 1st health care cannabis legislation was released in the condition legislature.
“There’s been a lot of ups and downs along the way,” Glenn said. “There were certainly occasions when it appeared like this was under no circumstances likely to occur, but we saved performing our investigation and placing jointly our options.”
What beforehand felt like a pipe desire at instances is now a tangible probability.
On Feb. 2, Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Monthly bill 2095 into regulation, developing a healthcare marijuana system in the point out.
Deneisha Glenn, 36, and Amber Glenn, 30, approach to hit the ground working, building their possess develop facility on spouse and children-owned land on Hairston Bend Street in east Lowndes County whilst opening a dispensary at the outdated Tuesday Morning storefront in the Jackson Sq. searching middle, place they’ve been leasing for extra than a year in anticipation of the legalization of health care cannabis.
The Glenns hope to start out promoting health-related cannabis products and solutions grown at their own facility in January 2023.
“When the governor signed the legislation, it hit us: ‘This is definitely happening,’” Deneisha claimed.
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