Tuesday in Baton Rouge one of the big debate topics will be, yet again, marijuana.
Representative Richard Nelson of Mandeville has filed three bills to decriminalize cannabis. The bills have been postponed multiple times since making it out of committee and on to the house floor. But he says today should be the day that the bills are finally debated.
Each cannabis bill does something different. One regulates, one taxes, and the third bill provides licenses for growers. And each bill would essentially be useless, without the others passing.
Nelson says he’s optimistic he now has the votes needed to send this bill to the Senate and does not plan on delaying that vote again.
