---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Cannabis Research Advisory Board; enact and create the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research Program."
description: "Medical Cannabis Research Advisory Board; enact and create the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 2888"
citation: "Mississippi SB 2888 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8acb414-1126-48d9-ae50-db307bdc78ad"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/House_authors/Boyd.xml"
source_hash: "f30a47c001328b0db856cb174d58df1fc849cf3f273787487e4ff8d71a7142d5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
---

# Mississippi SB 2888 (2024) — Medical Cannabis Research Advisory Board; enact and create the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Research Program.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2888IN.htm)
2. **Amendment No 1 (Cmte Sub) (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/pdf/sam/SB2888_S_(Cmte_Sub)_Amend_01.pdf)
3. **As Passed the upper** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2888PS.htm)
4. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2888CS.htm)
5. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/SB/2800-2899/SB2888SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **43–9** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **106–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blackwell — primary (person)
- Boyd — cosponsor (person)
- Hickman — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Simmons (13th) — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-02-19T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-14T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2024-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To House `introduction`
- **2024-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-28T05:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2024-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-03T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2024-04-08T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d8acb414-1126-48d9-ae50-db307bdc78ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).