THE CAJUN CANNABIS CONUNDRUM
DESPITE BEING A historically conservative state, Louisiana first legalized medical marijuana back in 1978. It amended the law in 1991, then left the program to wither on the regulatory vine, with the Department of Health failing to appoint a Marijuana Prescription Review Board or to draw up contracts with national groups for production and distribution.
That began to change in 2015, when Republican state Sen. Fred Mills, a pharmacist and
