Louisiana senator fighting for medical marijuana

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One state representative hopes that his second effort to enable Louisiana doctors to prescribe medical marijuana will clear at least the first hurdle — getting the bill out of committee.(Photo: AP)

BATON ROUGE – State Sen. Fred Mills, R-Parks, hopes that his second effort to enable Louisiana doctors to prescribe medical marijuana will clear at least the first hurdle — getting the bill out of committee.

Mills, a pharmacist who once led the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy, is proposing Senate Bill 143, legislation that would develop rules and guidelines for producing medical marijuana and dispensing it.

The bill will be presented at 10 a.m. Wednesday before the Senate Health and Welfare Committee.

Mills said medical marijuana has long been permitted in Louisiana — he said Louisiana OK'd the use of marijuana for therapeutic purposes as long ago as the 1970s and in 1991 they asked the Department of Health and...

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