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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The region’s third and final medical marijuana dispensary opened this month in Prairieville. Capitol Wellness Solutions, Baton Rouge’s medical marijuana retailer, launched its 17097 Airline Highway ...

Louisiana's medical marijuana program has matured into a model, marked by steady patient growth, falling prices and tight ...

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 ...