The program would launch next year and run through 2030, with the Louisiana Department of Health overseeing the marijuana ...

Louisiana's 2015 medical marijuana law makes the drug available only in non-smokable forms, like oils that can be administered through a syringe. The "i" in Gov. Bobby Jindal 's signature has been ...

Despite a medical marijuana law idling in the law books, there is nowhere in Louisiana to get a prescription filled, much less legally written, and waving a "prescription" for pot at a police officer ...

The first law allowing for the use of medical marijuana in Louisiana passed in 1978, however, only for patients with cancer and glaucoma. Since then, the legal framework for medical marijuana in ...

Nearly 150,000 people in Louisiana are part of the state's medical marijuana program — that's 3.2% of the state’s population.

In an overhaul of Louisiana’s still-evolving medical marijuana industry, a bill awaiting Gov. Jeff Landry’s signature is poised to transfer the state’s two exclusive medical weed-growing licenses from ...

Louisiana is becoming the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana on Tuesday, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to therapeutic cannabis. Nine pharmacies are ...

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A Louisiana lawmaker has introduced a bill to create an adult-use marijuana legalization pilot program in the state to ...

The two public universities that have held exclusive rights over medical marijuana farming in Louisiana could soon lose their duopoly after the Legislature approved a bill that will fully privatize ...

LAPLACE — Since Louisiana lawmakers legalized medical marijuana almost 10 years ago, licensed retail dispensaries have opened all across the state — but not in St. John the Baptist Parish, which does ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Marine veteran struggling with PTSD and a woman fighting cancer became some of the first people to purchase medical marijuana in Louisiana on Tuesday, as the state became the ...