SLS 18RS-1964 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 550
BY SENATOR COLOMB
PHARMACEUTICALS. Requires that levels of THC be carefully monitored in order to
ensure optimal therapeutic values for medicines produced from any lawfully cultivated
Cannabis plants. (8/1/18)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 40:1046(I), relative to the allowable THC levels of Cannabis
3 grown in accordance with the Alison Neustrom Act; and to provide for related
4 matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 40:1046(I) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
7 ยง1046. Recommendation of marijuana for therapeutic use; rules and regulations;
8 Louisiana Board of Pharmacy and the adoption of rules and
9 regulations relating to the dispensing of recommended marijuana for
10 therapeutic use; the Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the
11 licensure of a production facility
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13 I. The levels of THC in any marijuana produced pursuant to this Section
14 shall be reduced to the lowest acceptable therapeutic levels available through
15 scientifically accepted methods shall be carefully monitored in order to ensure
16 optimal therapeutic values for the medicines produced from any lawfully
17 cultivated Cannabis plants.
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions. SB NO. 550
SLS 18RS-1964 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jerry J. Guillot.
DIGEST
SB 550 Original 2018 Regular Session Colomb
Present law, relative to medical marijuana, requires that the levels of THC in any marijuana
produced pursuant to present law be reduced to the lowest acceptable therapeutic levels
available through scientifically accepted methods.
Proposed law requires that the levels of THC in any marijuana produced pursuant to present
law be carefully monitored in order to ensure optimal therapeutic values for the medicines
produced from any lawfully cultivated Cannabis plants.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 40:1046(I)
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.