Progress has been made in the slow-moving process of medical cannabis being dispensed in the Magnolia State, with two well-known Mississippi leaders expecting to open their testing lab soon.
In June, former Governor Ronnie Musgrove teamed up with Panola Medical Center CEO Quentin Whitwell to open one of Mississippi’s first medical cannabis testing facilities in Holly Springs. Now, the two are inching closer to finally having the testing facility up and running, as they have all the necessary equipment but just lack the required licensure.
“Most of the growers will probably be ready sometime toward the end of January or maybe February. We have been granted our provisional license by the State Department of Health. What that does is moves us to the next level of getting the [International Organization for Standardization] certification that the statute requires,” Musgrove said. “We’re in the process, right now, of having that done. We have all of the equipment. The certification will come, and we believe that will happen in the month of December so that we will be ready in January.”
The laboratory, named Magnolia Tech Labs, will operate as a toxicology testing center as it has in the past but will solely test cannabis samples. This includes cannabis that will be used for both smoking and consuming as edibles. With strict state laws being enacted on medical cannabis, Whitwell is hoping to get started sooner than later so that product will be available as dispensaries begin to open in Mississippi.
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