{"id":53536,"date":"2021-05-19T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/louisiana-house-kills-republican-weed-legalization-effort-despite-bipartisan-voter-support\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:03:36","slug":"louisiana-house-kills-republican-weed-legalization-effort-despite-bipartisan-voter-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/louisiana-house-kills-republican-weed-legalization-effort-despite-bipartisan-voter-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana House Kills Republican Weed Legalization Effort, Despite Bipartisan Voter Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Image <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/indicaonline.com\/blog\/louisiana-voters-back-cannabis-legalization-poll-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>via<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Louisiana House of Representatives voted against a critical cannabis reform bill needed to legalize weed in the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One Louisiana Republican, Rep. Richard Nelson, recently introduced two bills major weed reforms bills in the Pelican State. The actual legalization bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/bill\/HB699\/2021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>HB 699<\/u><\/a>, would have permitted the sale of one ounce of weed per day to anyone at least 21-years-old.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, HB 699 depended on the passage of another bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/LA\/bill\/HB434\/2021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>HB 434<\/u><\/a>, which would\u2019ve established a 15 percent tax on all recreational, or retail, pot sales. The Republican-majority House squashed the bill with a 47-48 Yea-Nay vote. Since HB 699 involved new taxes, its approval required 70 Yea votes under Louisiana law.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/these-are-the-states-in-us-that-havent-legalized-medical-cannabis-yet\/undefined\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nelson, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/news\/politics\/legislature\/article_b668b19a-b826-11eb-a100-bb35779163c1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Eagle Scout<\/u><\/a> who claims he\u2019s never smoked cannabis, said the state could generate $100 million a year in tax revenue from legal weed sales. As of Tuesday\u2019s vote, that potential revenue has gone up in smoke. At least until the next session when the bills can be reintroduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, all this money, we have zero,\u201d Nelson told a local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/article\/louisiana-house-rejects-bill-to-tax-recreational-marijuana-likely-dooming-legalized-weed-this-year-and-next\/36466401\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>NBC News<\/u><\/a> affiliate. \u201cIt&#8217;s nothing. It&#8217;s all going to the drug dealers. We don&#8217;t pass this bill, it&#8217;s going to go to the drug dealers this year, it&#8217;s going to go to the drug dealers next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, weed legalization isn\u2019t a controversial \u2014 or even a partisan \u2014 issue in Louisiana. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/louisiana-republican-voters-support-marijuana-legalization-too-survey-says\/ar-BB1gNsKY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>a poll<\/u><\/a> released earlier this week, voters from all nine House districts supported legalization. All nine districts voted for Trump in the 2019 presidential election, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/have-you-seen-purple-weed-porn-like-this-before\/undefined\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another poll from March found, on average, <a href=\"https:\/\/winwithjmc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/LATA-Executive-Summary-Release.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>67 percent<\/u><\/a> of Louisiana\u2019s votes support weed legalization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The issue with cannabis reform stalling in Louisiana has nothing to do with its citizens. The holdup resides entirely with the state\u2019s legislature. Louisiana\u2019s anti-pot politicians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvocate.com\/baton_rouge\/news\/politics\/legislature\/article_b668b19a-b826-11eb-a100-bb35779163c1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>cited debunked myths<\/u><\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/its-official-legal-weed-does-not-lead-to-increased-crime-study-confirms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>rising crime rates<\/u><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/weed-legalization-is-not-linked-to-traffic-related-pedestrian-fatalities-study-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>traffic fatalities <\/u><\/a>caused by legalization.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all doom and gloom in Louisiana, though. The state-approved non-inhalable medical cannabis in 2016, and finally rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/louisiana-medical-cannabis-patients-are-finally-allowed-to-inhale-their-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>smokable medical weed<\/u><\/a> in 2019. And last week, the House decriminalized personal pot possession with the passage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/louisiana-house-passes-bill-decriminalize-marijuana\/5046416001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>HB 652<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HB 652 was sponsored by 10 Louisiana Democrats and just one Republican. If you guessed that lone Republican was Rep. Richard Nelson, you win an infused cookie.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To contact Louisiana\u2019s state representatives, visit the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.louisiana.gov\/H_Landing\/representatives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>House\u2019s website<\/em><\/u><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana\u2019s Republican-led House of Representatives shot down a bill that effectively ends the state\u2019s legalization campaign that was spearheaded by a fellow Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Louisiana House Kills Republican Weed Legalization Effort, Despite Bipartisan Voter Support - 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