First sale of cannabis? It’s a photo finish. See the results – Clarion Ledger


Six more dispensaries around the state are expected to open in the coming days

The race to become the undisputed first medical cannabis dispensary to sell product is over. But there is some dispute over the exact time when that exactly took place.

Early reports were that The Cannabis Company in Brookhaven sold the first product Wednesday afternoon. That was followed by the news that Hybrid Relief in Oxford sold the first product.

It appears we have a photo finish.

“Our vision was to be first to market. We thought that would be cool,” said Le Anne Penn of the Cannabis Company. “We were the first dispensary in Brookhaven to get a license, the third in the state and we think we were the first in the state to make a sale. There were a couple of more behind us, but we were the first one.”

What time was that?

“I don’t really know exactly what time it was. It was between 3 and 3:15 p.m.,” Penn said.

Umm, Houston, we have a problem.

Ryan Herget, CEO of Retail Management of Good Day Farm in Lafayette County, said that Hybrid Relief sold its first product at 3 p.m. There was no wavering on the time.

„Straight up 3 p.m.,” Herget said.

So, who made the first sale?

There may be no way of actually knowing. Both claim the title and that is probably OK.

The upshot is that the medical cannabis market is up and going and there is no looking back.

„When we got our first order in from Mockingbird, they helped us so much and have been a real partner in this process,” Penn said.

There are more dispensaries on the way with one in Hattiesburg expected to open Friday, followed by another in Brookhaven, one in Biloxi, Corinth, Laurel, Tupelo and Jackson in the coming days.

Mockingbird Cannabis is the largest cultivator in Mississippi with 163,000 square feet of space in Hinds County.

The facility, which formerly housed the Mississippi Department of Revenue, has four pods of 16 cultivation rooms and room to grow, based on demand as the medical marijuana business matures in the years to come.

„Mockingbird is thrilled to have sold and delivered the first order of medical cannabis in the state of Mississippi. This marks a significant milestone in the efforts to provide safe and effective medical cannabis to patients in need in our home state,” said co-founder Marcy Croft. „We are excited to continue working with state officials and regulators to make medical cannabis available to patients across Mississippi. We believe that medical cannabis has the potential to provide relief to those suffering from a wide range of medical conditions, and we are dedicated to making it accessible to as many people as possible.”

Good Day Farm will be supplying the dispensary in Hattiesburg that will be opening Friday as well as many others that will be opening in the coming days.

„Tomorrow will be a really busy day for us with the opening of the Hattiesburg dispensary,” Herget said.

Mississippi is the fourth state for Little-Rock-based Good Day Farm, a leading cannabis company in the South with operations in Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri.

The market continues to grow as 1,600 patients are qualified in the state of Mississippi with nearly 1,000 more in the system to be approved.

„This really isn’t a competition,” Herget said. „We look at it in a way that we are all working together to serve the patients of Mississippi. We look forward to patient growth. Before yesterday there was nothing on the market. So, now that the dispensaries are open, patients that want to an qualify will be able to go and get a card.”

Now that legal medical sales are underway, Good Day Farm expects to scale its Mississippi operations quickly, with plans to double its cultivation and production footprint in the coming year.

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