Louisiana Medical Marijuana Law

Status

Operational

Law Signed:

2016

QUALIFYING CONDITIONS

  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Cachexia/wasting syndrome
  • Cancer
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Epilepsy
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Intractable pain (defined as “pain so chronic or severe as to otherwise warrant an opiate prescription”)
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Post traumatic stress disorder
  • Seizure disorders/spasticity
  • Severe muscle spasms
  • Any other condition not otherwise specified “that a physician, in his medical opinion, considers debilitating to an individual patient and is qualified through his medical education and training to treat” (effective 8/1/2020)

PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS

  • A 30-day supply of non-smokable preparations of marijuana
  • Dispensaries may also provide cannabis “in a form to be administered by metered-dose inhaler”

HOME CULTIVATION

No; the LSU and Southern University agricultural centers have selected two companies to cultivate and produce medical cannabis.

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES

The Louisiana Board of Pharmacy has chosen nine distributing pharmacies.

STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL

Yes

CAREGIVERS

No

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS

  • 29,030
  • Source: Louisiana Board of Pharmacy verified by independent reporting, as of April, 2022

EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR QUALIFYING PATIENTS

RECIPROCITY

Yes