Mississippi 2020 top stories: Virus, flag, prisons, storms
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSDecember 28, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) More than one in every 1,000 Mississippi residents died of COVID-19 during 2020. And as the U.S. faced widespread protests over racial injustice, Mississippi legislators voted under pressure to retire a Confederate-themed state flag that had been used for 116 years.
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Mississippi detected its first coronavirus cases in March, and the pandemic shook the economy, disrupted schools and scrambled people’s routines. Unemployment claims rose sharply as people lost jobs. Some could work from home, but many still had to report to factories or other places requiring in-person labor. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves set a statewide mask mandate for several weeks during the summer, but at other times set county-by-county mask mandates in places with the fastest spread of the virus. The state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, repeatedly implored people to wear mas
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October 29, 2020
According to a Marijuana Business Daily (MBD) article published earlier this week, the City of Madison, Miss., hopes to knock a “business-friendly medical cannabis initiative” off the upcoming Nov. 3 election’s ballot. Reportedly, Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler filed an emergency petition earlier this week challenging the medical use initiative.
According to a Marijuana Moment article covering the same development, the measure seeks to allow patients with debilitating medical issues to legally obtain marijuana with an accompanying physician recommendation. The proposed measure lists 22 qualifying medical conditions including cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, and chronic pain, and would allow patients to possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana per two week period.
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