Louisiana laws make it one of the hardest places to get a medical marijuana card, but it’s not impossible. If you are a medical patient who is currently living in the state, you may qualify for a medical marijuana card in …
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Louisiana Lawmakers Add Medical Conditions Eligible For Therapeutic Marijuana
By Melinda Deslatte BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers are moving to expand the state’s medical cannabis program, as marijuana nears availability within months. The House voted 60-39 Thursday to add more conditions to the list of diseases and …
Read More »After Seven Years Behind Bars for Two Joints, Bernard Noble is Free
Noble, 51, was arrested while biking in New Orleans. The cops said they found about three grams of weed on him. Because he’d been convicted of having small amounts of cocaine and weed in the past, they threw the book …
Read More »Where is Louisiana’s Medical Marijuana Program?
There’s a saying that things in the South move at their own pace. Such is the case with medical marijuana in Louisiana, it seems. In 2015, both the Louisiana House of Representatives and the Senate voted to pass medical marijuana …
Read More »Only Two Doctors Have Applied to Recommend Medical Cannabis in Louisiana – News
After being signed into law last year, Louisiana’s medical cannabis program is slowly working towards its expected start date next year. To date, only two doctors in the state have applied for permission to recommend the drug to patients, however, …
Read More »New Study Finds Legal Cannabis Equals Fewer Pharmaceuticals
“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …
Read More »Louisiana Chief Justice Argues Against “Ridiculous” 18-Year Sentence for Marijuana Possession
In 2014, Gary D. Howard was convicted by a jury of marijuana possession with intent to distribute, and sentenced to 18 years in prison with no possibility of parole. Howard appealed to the state Supreme Court over the severity of the sentence, but the court ruled to uphold the lower court's decision. The court's ruling was not unanimous, however, and Chief Justice Bernette Johnson called her fellow justices' decision "outrageous" and "ridiculous" in her dissent.
Police found 18 grams of pot in Howard's girlfriend's house, which was packaged into five separate bags.
Congress blocks feds from interfering with state marijuana laws
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A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans recently hashed out a $1 trillion budget for government spending, but none of which will be used to crack down on legal pot.
A new government funding bill will block the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana companies operating in legal states, reports the Orange County Register.
The budget’s full text of the marijuana provision is as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States