Will Louisiana ever legalize medical marijuana

I thought they already did. Already awarded licenses.

I think we’d be last to pass it just like everything else.

I don't know why Louisiana doesn't legalize marijuana as Colorado did - it would make a huge windfall in taxes (until Texas eventually legalizes it).

Though, from what I read here, the windfall would probably go into some politician pockets rather than to solve your budget problems.

If it was legal recreationally here, the tax dollars would be flowing like the Mississippi. We’d have new roads and nicer schools along with politicians with fatter pockets.

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I thought they already did.

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They did, it's just really in name only. No smokeable/flowered allowed, and the list of conditions that are eligible is very narrow.

Those resort style casinos would be booming even more and popping more up all over South LA if people could smoke and gamble all in one stop. New Orleans would be a giant smoke cloud 24/7

One problem with legalization is the "big business" aspect of it. The government will get rich from the taxes. The politicians will do everything they can to insure that their friends own the shops that sell it.
They will set up administrative barriers to the small businessperson having a business.

In some respects, it might be better to just eliminate the criminal penalty completely and let the small dealers to their thing.

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I thought they already did. Already awarded licenses.

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yep

It is legal here already with the program going through the final stages of estalishment. Prescriptions supposedly will begin being filled in September-October.