Louisiana

BATON ROUGE - America’s cannabis industry continues to expand, and Louisiana is keeping up with the trend. By 2025, the state expects to see more than $400 million in legal cannabis sales. Daniel Kalef is the executive vice president of Green Flower, a training platform specifically designed for

If passed, the new bill would improve the expungement program in Louisiana. The Louisiana House of Representatives recently passed a bill to improve the state’s expungement program for cannabis possession convictions. Rep. Delisha Boyd sponsored the bill, which passed with a 69-30 vote. “House Bill

NEW ORLEANS - State Rep Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans) let out a sigh of relief as her proposed medical marijuana bill narrowly made it out of the Labor and Industrial Relations committee on Tuesday (May 23). “Nothing makes it out of the Labor Committee here,” Landry said. “Not minimum wage, not

Two Louisiana Senators state that they were misled when they approved hemp legislation. Louisiana state Sen. Stewart Cathey and Sen. Jay Morris stated in a recent Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on April 18 that legalizing hemp products with THC was unintended. “Last session we unknowingly

A Louisiana district judge Wednesday dismissed one lawsuit seeking to protect adult consumable hemp products that can create a "high". But a temporary restraining order from a second lawsuit remains in place that prevents regulators from removing them from retailers' shelves for now. The legal

Gummies and other products made from hemp were legalized and have become very popular. An attempt by Louisiana regulators to crack down on consumable hemp products – billed as legal THC by some of the thousands of retailers licensed to sell them – has run into swift pushback from the hemp industry

Hundreds of hemp products approved by the Louisiana Department of Health could become illegal under an emergency rule discussed by the House Health and Welfare Committee this week. The situation has caused chaos in the state's growing hemp industry, with entrepreneurs testifying the change could

Parents of students at a local school are furious over a situation involving drugs brought by a student. KTAL Reports are stating that a female student brought the marijuana edibles from home and passed them out to some students. Reports also state that the mother of a 13 year-old student at Green

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana is considering a new bill, H.B. 24, decriminalizing marijuana possession and distribution. The bill proposes to remove criminal penalties associated with the possession, distribution, or dispensing of marijuana. However, the bill would only come into effect if the legislature

John Williams, the leading beer lobbyist in Louisiana, emailed all of the state’s lawmakers in November with the ominous subject line “Recreational THC is now legal in Louisiana.” Photos of gas stations and smoke shops promoting items containing THC, the psychoactive ingredient present in marijuana

A panel that has spent months debating policy ideas to protect workers who use medical marijuana concluded the bulk of its work Thursday, approving more than a dozen recommendations to the Louisiana Legislature. Thursday marked the last meeting of the Employment and Medical Marijuana Task Force, a

Medical board doesn't want new patients to access drug through telemedicine. One of the drivers of the explosive growth in Louisiana’s medical marijuana industry has been online platforms where patients can get a prescription for the drug remotely through a telemedicine visit with a doctor. But