Local medical cannabis dispensary companies and cultivators came together Sunday afternoon to network and discuss cultivation techniques. Dispensary companies were able to see and smell the medical cannabis they could potentially buy. That is not something they are typically able to do.
State law requires that any medical cannabis sold in Mississippi be packaged in an opaque and light-resistant container. This means dispensaries typically have to purchase cannabis from growers without ever seeing the product.
Currently, when purchasing medical cannabis, the only thing you see are percentages.
"I think we need to kind of do a little more education to get away from that because there is a lot of flower out there that may not be 25-30% THC. That's really helpful to the patient and has different medicinal effects that they may never encounter because they are just looking at numbers on paper," Joel Case, with cultivation company Suite 1620, said.
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