How Louisiana's medical marijuana bill has evolved
State Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, sponsored the medical marijuana bill.(Photo: Leslie Westbrook, The Advertiser)
Vigorous debate in the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and before the full upper chamber has sharpened the focus of a bill that would enable medical marijuana to be prescribed in Louisiana.
That’s how sponsor Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, sees things. Mills next will take Senate Bill 143 to the House Health and Welfare Committee, perhaps in a week. It’s a committee on which he served while a House member, and Mills expects to get a full and fair hearing for his legislation there.
Mills said last week that his office has been flooded with calls from people afflicted with illnesses that might benefit from SB 143, as well as calls from their families. Medical marijuana has been legal in Louisiana for more than two decades, but the mechanisms of how to deliver marijuana to patients...
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