The new business 18/45 Wellness, located at 2289 Highway 145 South in Quitman, held their Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on October 10. A large crowd attended the event in order to support it and learn more about the products they carry.
The owner of the business, Pamela Chapman, has been through the required training and has been co-owner of a dispensary in Meridian for a year now.
“There was a person from Colorado who introduced me to medical cannabis,” explained Chapman. “They sent me to Colorado to get training on the benefits of the products. It took about five or six months of training. When they knew that it had passed in Mississippi, they said that it would be a good place to start. We opened up Threefoot Wellness in Meridian on Juneteenth of last year.”
She decided to open a business in Clarke County as well to help benefit elderly customers in the area.
“Meridian is a much bigger place, but I have so many people who travel from Clarke County and Wayne County to get to Meridian,” continued Chapman. “I decided that I had so many elderly people traveling there that I needed to do something that would be easier for them.”
They sale products grown in Clarke County. They attain their products from both Bud Ridge and Rodney Talley’s Happy Campers Farms.
There are some misconceptions involving dispensaries, and they are more than willing to teach others the benefit of their products and everything they are able to treat.
“I don’t want people to be timid and not come get information that we have. We want people to learn the benefits of it because there are benefits,” expressed Chapman. “There are a lot of misconceptions. A lot of people think that you have to give up your gun to have a card, and that’s not true. There are conditions for you to have a card, but there are things you can get without a card too. We do have products that you don’t have to have a card to purchase. We have like lotions that you can rub on the pain and oils that you don’t have to have a card for.”
Some of the different products they have come in the following forms: terpenes, ratio products, gummies, brownies, cookies, chocolates, gel caps and dissolvable powder, and tinctures.
For anyone who may be considering getting a prescription and card for medical cannabis, the following are qualifying conditions that it is used to treat: cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy, glaucoma, spastic quadriplegia, positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, sickle-cell anemia, Alzheimer’s disease, agitation of dementia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), autism, pain refractory to appropriate opioid management, diabetic/peripheral neuropathy, and spinal cord disease or severe injury.
They also allow a chronic terminal or debilitating disease that causes any of the following to qualify: cachexia or wasting syndrome, chronic pain, severe or intractable nausea, seizures, severe and persistent muscle spasms including, but not limited to, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
18/45 Wellness will be open on Monday-Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. For more information, contact 18/45 Wellness at 601-650-6788.
