Medical marijuana in Louisiana could be ready by fall 2018
 

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Medical marijuana products could be available to Louisiana patients as early as September ? 40 years after state lawmakers first approved marijuana for medical use.

Officials from Louisiana State University and Southern University ? the stewards of the state crops to be processed into marijuana-based medicines ? presented rough timelines and budgets to the joint House and Senate agriculture committee April 18, the same week the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy awarded competitive, potentially lucrative licenses to nine medical marijuana pharmacies that will cover the entire state.

These moves follow 2015 and 2016 legislation that tasked several statewide agencies with coming up with the rules for medical marijuana in Louisiana. Those laws followed a dead-end 1978 medical marijuana law that sat dormant on the books without any legal infrastructure to back it up.
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