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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Louisiana marijuana law changes endorsed by House, headed to Senate 🌿Louisiana marijuana law changes endorsed by House, headed to Senate
A proposal to reduce marijuana penalties for those convicted multiple times of possessing pot cleared the House floor Wednesday (May 13) in the Louisiana Legislature.
Current law allows for someone to be sentenced up to 20 years in prison for getting convicted three or more times with as little as one joint. Among the changes proposed in the legislation, sponsored by state Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, is a reduction of the maximum penalty from 20 years to eight.
"It starts chipping away at Louisiana being the incarceration capital of the world," Badon said from the House floor, after his bill passed.
The legislation now heads to the Senate after the House voted 53-36 to advance it.
The legislation, (HB 149), drops the maximum sentence for second-offense marijuana possession from five years in prison to two years. It would also drop the maximum sentence for third-offense possession from 20 years to five. Subsequent convictions could allow for a maximum sentence up to eight...
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