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According to the Supreme Court, the legality of NSA mass surveillance can't even be legally challenged. This was the message the Court sent when it refused to take up Jewel v. NSA, allowing an appellate court decision to stand.

Together, the two new laws will allow medical marijuana patients from outside Louisiana to obtain medicinal cannabis in the state.

Michelle Cirocco is chief social responsibility officer for Televerde and the executive director of Televerde Foundation. She joined Televerde in 1999 where she has held several leadership positions including chief marketing officer. Michelle was recently named one of the World-Changing Women in Conscious Business by Conscious Company magazine and Most Admired Leader by Phoenix Business ...

Allen County, like most of the country, has a backlog of trials that were delayed by the pandemic.

Once they begin to circulate, falsehoods—like counterfeit currency—are surprisingly tenacious. It doesn’t matter that there’s no backing for them. The only thing that counts is that people believe they have backing. Then, like bad coins, they turn up again and again. One counterfeit idea that ci ...

The new law modifies state regulations to make it easier for small farmers to access the state’s legal marijuana market. Under the law, the state will regulate the activities of a licensed small cannabis cultivator as “farming,” amend the criteria regarding the area for cultivating cannabis commercially and for personal cultivation, and allow licensed cultivators to purchase and sell seeds and immature plants to one another and for licensed wholesalers to sell such products to licensed cul...

Under the proposed law, patients would be able to access cannabis on a physician's recommendation if they suffer from a “debilitating medical condition” such as cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and post-traumatic stress disorder.

SB1281 would eliminate the cultivation tax and would reduce the excise tax to 5% of the gross receipts of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer.

Under the new law, which went into immediate effect, the sale and possession of up to 1 ounce of cannabis is legalized for adults ages 21 and older, with no more than 10 ounces for personal use kept at a person’s residence.

A Louisiana Senate committee passed a bill that would prohibit state and local enforcement of any federal gun control implemented on or after Jan. 1, 2022. Passage into law would take a first step toward stopping federal acts that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms within the state.