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 ...

It’s taken four years, but starting next week, the first batch of medical marijuana will arrive in Louisiana dispensaries. On Thursday, the state’s agriculture and forestry commissioner Mike Strain ...

Louisiana may soon be the first state in the South to go green. Medical marijuana — which technically was legal in Louisiana for years without any legal framework — now has the infrastructure for ...

After lengthy delays in Southern University’s medical marijuana program, the school and a private company it hired to run the growing operation planted its first seeds of the crop this week after ...

At the federal level, Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning that marijuana is believed to have no medical use and a high potential for abuse, says U ...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who is often considered the poster child for the pot-hating politician, signed two pieces of pot legislation into law on Monday—one that legalizes a statewide medical ...

After nearly a year of legal wrangling over whether St. John the Baptist Parish will allow its first medical marijuana dispensary, a district court has ordered parish officials to make a final zoning ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Americans deserve access to the best medical treatments and research infrastructure in the world. In 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) completed a review of ...