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LSU Vice President for Agriculture Bill Richardson talks about the medical marijuana project at a forum in Baton Rouge on Oct. 28. (Photo by Olivia McClure)

Medical marijuana project needs $11M in private funding to get growing

Fri, 11/11/2016 - 5:09am Harlan Kirgan

The state-mandated initiative to grow marijuana and process it for medical purposes will need at least $11 million in private funding to get off the ground, and it will be at least 18 months before any product sales are made, according to a project concept recently released by the LSU AgCenter.

Katie Corkern of Amite displays a large syringe she says she must shove down her 9-year-old son’s throat to treat his illness.  It causes seizures and the medicine he takes, she added, is making him go blind.  Corkern said medically prescribed marijuana is his “last hope.”  The House Health & Welfare Committee recommended the bill to the full House Tuesday.  Credit;  Justin DiCharia.

Medical marijuana posts a narrow win

Wed, 05/04/2016 - 8:21am Harlan Kirgan

A bill permitting the use of prescribed marijuana for specified maladies got narrow approval by the House Health & Welfare Committee, but across the rotunda a Senate committee disapproved of a bill that would allow universities to grow hemp because it is distantly related to marijuana.  

Rep. Major Thibaut, D-New Roads, discusses HB 1099 with the House Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development. The bill would legalize and set up a system for the production of medical grade marijuana. Credit: D. B. Narveson

Legislators ponder medical marijuana details

Sun, 04/17/2016 - 3:44pm Harlan Kirgan

University agriculture centers might soon be able to start growing marijuana and its plant cousin, hemp, for industrial and medicinal purposes.

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