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Louisiana lawmaker looking to Colorado for marijuana success

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 04/13/2015 - 08:00

The French Quarter in New Orleans could be buzzing with more than jazz and joie de vivre if a Baton Rouge lawmaker gets his way.
(Photo courtesy of the Louisiana Office of Tourism)

The state that gives us Mardi Gras and muffulettas, crawfish and Cajun fiddle, can’t figure out MMJ. Medical marijuana has been legal in Louisiana since voters approved it in 1991, but the state hasn’t been able to pass regulations on it, which keeps it out of reach of most people who could use it. Louisiana dispensaries haven’t flourished to get the medicine to the people the way they did in Colorado after Senate Bill 109 and House Bill 1248 passed in 2010 to set up licensing and governance. The Colorado rules came a decade after state voters passed medical use with Amendment 20 in 2000, and two years before recreational pot was approved with Amendment 64...

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