Several Oklahoma school districts lifted their mask mandates this week.Guthrie and Kingfisher public schools officials said they will no longer have mandatory masking because of the low infection numbers in their counties. A few members of the Oklahoma Medical Association said COVID-19 is still there and now is not the time to become complacent.“It’s important to get back to school, no doubt, and kids are really very accepting of masks. They don’t seem to have the issue,” said Dr. Jean Hausheer, chair of the Healthier Oklahoma Coalition.State health leaders reacted to the school districts’ decision to lift mask mandates, saying we can’t take our foot off the gas just yet even with the vaccine rollout in Oklahoma.“We’re not quite there yet. We’re getting really close. Let’s not spike the football on the five-yard line. Let’s reach our final goal, and we’ve still got to fight this virus, but it’s very close,” said Dr. George Monks, president of the Okla
As South Dakota moves forward on creating a regulatory system for medical marijuana by the end of 2021, some people have looked to Oklahoma for guidance on how or how not to develop a functioning framework.
Oklahoma voters approved the legal sale, possession and use of medical marijuana on a statewide ballot measure in June 2018. The measure required rapid implementation of a regulatory framework, providing only about 10 weeks to prepare for legal sales compared with an average of more than a year in most states.
Since then, the state has taken a free-market approach to certification of marijuana-related businesses and has one of the least restrictive physician-certification processes for patients who want to obtain medical pot.
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