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Marijuana fight returning to Legislature this session (Louisiana)


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State Rep. Dalton Honoré, D-Baton Rouge, is looking to Colorado as he prepares for the fight in the Legislature over upcoming marijuana legislation.

“As we speak, I’m in Colorado now talking with legislators and policy advisers to see how the program is going in Colorado,” he said Thursday. “They’ve seen a huge tax increase. I’m just trying to get some facts and figures together. The crime rate has gone down. Traffic fatalities have had a tremendous drop. The arrests of possession of marijuana has dropped from more than 30,000 annually to 2,000. Colorado has accumulated $60 million from the taxes.”

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Honoré has written two pieces of legislation addressing marijuana for the session, which begins Monday. The first, House Bill 6, would allow for the distribution of marijuana for medicinal purposes throughout the state.

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