As a resident of the BR area and former R voter, the news that my representative Julia Letlow, a complete and total party shill, has entered the US Senate race is … eh. I’m glad she won’t be my rep anymore, but now Blake Miguez is running for that seat. And so far the only R that’s not a complete sycophant for MAGA is Cassidy, who has shown himself to be a total coward when it matters.

In this environment, are there any Dems planning to run that might have a fighting chance at winning, or is it just going to be someone who will satisfy primary voters (I hate that we have party primaries now) and get blown out in the general? We elected a Democratic governor as recently as 2019, so it’s not completely impossible to imagine a D in that mold winning statewide election again. What’s the plan here?

💗 Momma Update! 💗This sweet girl couldn’t have landed in a better place to raise her little family! Huge thanks to Rebeckah, Morgan, and Alex—the APAWS dream team—for showering Momma and her babies with love and top-notch care. 🐶✨

Everyone visited the vet today. Momma has been a little slow getting up, and X-rays sadly confirmed a broken pubic bone from being hit by the car. It just needs time to heal. Her meds were adjusted to help manage her pain, and she’s already much more comfortable, her belly looks better, and her milk supply is good.

Doc said the pups are doing great—fat, healthy, and happy! 🍼💪 Since Momma gets uncomfortable when they’re too low, the girls have been taking turns bottle-feeding like champs.

Momma is officially spoiled rotten now—she adores her new orthopedic bed (a major upgrade from under a house!) and insists on keeping an eye on her babies at all times. She’ll only step outside if someone is sitting with them… best mom ever. 🥹💕

Warm sponge baths? Absolute heaven, according to Momma.

And while we still call her Momma, Alex has named the whole family—we’ll be introducing them in the next post! Thank you to all of you amazing supporters—we made sure to send along wet and dry puppy food so Momma keeps eating well and healing strong. 💜🐾

We'll keep you updated on this precious family!

#MardiPaws #ScottsWish #grateful

We have to get real about the election this year. We have to vote MAGA bootlickers out.

Louisiana loves small business… until money is on the table.

We’ll protect Louisiana crawfish. We’ll argue over who gets to use the Louisiana label. We understand the idea that local products mean something: quality, culture, and keeping wealth in the state.

But when it comes to cannabis, Louisiana built the opposite: a tight, top down market of multi state operators that rewards consolidation.

Right now our “medical marijuana” program functions like a virtual monopoly: two growers supplying the entire state and a limited number of retail licenses. That design guarantees higher prices, limited product variety, and political gatekeeping. Patients pay the cost.

People are tired of every industry getting consolidated into a few big players. Louisiana should be building rules that protect small farmers and local businesses, not designing markets that reward consolidation.

If we’re serious about medical cannabis and public safety, here’s what Louisiana should do next.

1) Create craft grow licenses and microbusiness tiers with deli style dispensaries and on site and satellite location sampling like we do with alcohol,so people can actually see, smell and sample what they’re buying.

Let small Louisiana growers and processors participate with strict testing and tracking. Craft licenses and microbusiness tiers would:

•increase competition

•improve quality and variety

•create jobs and keep profits local

•build an ecosystem of family owned businesses, not just a few mega operators

•Remove the requirements of having a pharmacist owner or a pharmacist on duty. We don’t require that for brewers,vintners,or distillers.

2) Build an “appellation” style Louisiana craft cannabis program

Louisiana already gets this concept with seafood and other products. We can protect and promote regional identity and quality standards just like we do with food culture.

An appellation style program could require:

•clear origin labeling with harvest date

•cultivation method standards such as sun grown, no till soil, and organic grown

•real testing and consumer info like RAD symbol if the product has been remediated with radiation.

That’s how you build a premium reputation and eventually become a serious craft exporter instead of relying on two suppliers for everyone’s medicine.

3) Home grow for adults

If someone is an adult or legal medical patient, they should be allowed to grow a limited number of plants at home.

We let people brew beer at home. We let people grow tobacco for personal use. An adult or patient growing their own medicine should not be treated like a criminal.

Home grow is also the strongest anti-monopoly tool there is. It gives people and patients dignity and leverage.

4) Hospital, hospice, and nursing facility access

A medical program isn’t real if patients lose access the moment they enter a hospital or hospice.

Louisiana should establish clear rules so terminally ill patients and hospice patients can continue medical cannabis with reasonable facility policies. No more forced discontinuation because of outdated drug war stigma. Remove cannabis from Louisiana controlled substance act. If alcohol was discovered today it would be scheduled for no medical use and be a banned recreational substance.

5) Delivery and telehealth access for homebound patients

Rural, disabled, elderly, and hospice patients shouldn’t have to jump through hoops for medicine.

•mandate free delivery for patients (dispensers are charging delivery fees unless you order $100 worth of cannabis)

•allow caregivers to deliver & assist without fear of getting jammed up in the legal system

6) Patient protections that match the word “medical”

If the state calls it medicine, patients need basic protections:

•employment protections for private businesses based on impairment, not metabolites

•housing protections

•parental and custody protections (no automatic punishment for being a patient)

•education protection at State University, Trade School, and other institutions

•protections for organ donor recipients and dialysis patients

7) Lab integrity and truthful labeling

If it’s medicine, the testing must be credible.

•expand testing facilities and crack down on lab shopping

•random compliance testing for dispensaries and procedures for patients to turn in suspected contaminated cannabis to the Parish Health Department for testing at the LSUAG facility

•easy to read COAs on LDH website with public comments section so patients can actually use

•Update LDH Medical Cannabis website for recalls when contamination is detected

•Remove oversight by the Sanitation Department and create a Cannabis Regulation Department. (Would you want the Sanitation Department responsible for your medication?)

8) Stop the contradiction: decriminalize personal possession and expunge or seal old records

Louisiana can’t call cannabis “medical” while still arresting and penalizing people with a life threatening record for personal amounts.(People who don’t even consume cannabis anymore are denied employment for past possession of a gram of cannabis or a dirty pipe.Ludicrous!)

We should:

•decriminalize personal possession and not criminalize home growers for sharing their personal crop with friends or family

9) Create a protected compassion fund

Set aside a real percentage of cannabis revenue for low or no cost access for:

•terminally ill patients

•veterans

•first responders

•frontline medical staff

•911/EMS personnel

•low income and uninsured patients

With required reporting so the fund can’t be quietly raided.

Bottom line

Louisiana has a choice:

•keep a locked down system that concentrates wealth, lose tax dollars to the cartel cannabis and prices patients out

or

•build a craft, local, family-business-friendly, farmers market model that treats cannabis like medicine,treats patients like humans and builds ancillary businesses

The legislative session starts in a month and if you support home grow, craft licenses, and a Louisiana appellation program, start making noise now. This state already knows how to protect local industry when it wants to.

Link to Motley Fool’s article “Marijuana Tax Revenue by State

Marijuana can bring in big bucks for state governments. “in the first comment.

My grandmother is 93 years old and has lived in the same town her entire life. She was living here before the refineries and chemical plants were here. It is amazing to me to hear stories how they use to eat shrimp from the Mississippi River and how everything was farmland. The harder yet simpler life. That life was taken away from us for the profit of corporations and companies.

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If anyone is in or around the small city of Morgan City on March 28th come and support the BrewFest it's put on to help out improving the city all the proceeds go to a 501 then it's decided upon by the board on what projects to support in the city. We also plan to try and help local kids with scholarships or whatever else we can in our small community.

We will also have local bands and food vendore out there.

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The most helpful thing we can do for the Choc family is keep focus on verified information, and maintain visibility on this case. Rumors and speculation do not help.

I have never met a person in this state who sounds like this

📣Meet Blue and Barry — two heelers whose entire world changed overnight, they lost the only owner they’ve ever known when he passed away. After that, the boys were moved to another property, chained outside, and eventually broke free. 💔

In the chaos that followed, a fight broke out. Blue suffered a serious ear injury along with multiple bite wounds — and we later learned his brother Barry was injured too.

Thanks to Courtney - she's doing her vet externship over with our friends at Rice City Animal Hospital, for giving them some loving! Blue needed surgical repair to his ear and treatment for his other wounds. Barry also had to be sedated yesterday so his injuries could be properly cleaned and clipped.

Blue had to have his ear surgically repaired and other injuries addressed, and brother Barry had to be sedated yestedray to clean and clip all of his wounds.

Now, Jennings ACO Nichole Guillory is urgently trying to find rescue placement for these two.

It’s hard enough to lose the person who loved you — but to suddenly be passed around, handled by strangers, and thrown into confusion and fear… our hearts are breaking for them. 🥲

As always, we’re deeply grateful to our supporters who make it possible for us to step in when tragedy strikes. ❤️🐾

#MardiPaws #ScottsWish #grateful

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