Louisiana's agriculture department and a state-sanctioned medical marijuana grower have broken through one of the key regulatory logjams keeping therapeutic cannabis off pharmaceutical shelves and out of patients' hands.
Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain announced Friday that regulatory paperwork and background checks have been finished that will allow Louisiana State University's medical marijuana grower to move fully into a larger growing facility and start ramping up production.
The university and its growing partner GB Sciences said the main production site, completed in October, has five times the marijuana growing capacity of the facility they had been using.
"This is a great day for patients," John Davis, GB Sciences Louisiana president, said in a statement released by the LSU AgCenter. "Full-scale operations means a consistent and continuous supply of medical cannabis. We are thrilled to move into our main facilities."
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