To: The Louisiana State House, The Louisiana State Senate, and Governor John Bel Edwards
Legalize recreational adult cannabis use and sales in Louisiana
Our fellow Americans in Colorado reached 1 billion in legal cannabis sales in just 8 months, and their relaxed cannabis laws have generated millions of tax dollars while lowering suicide rates, lowering opioid prescription rates, and has brought jobs to 37, 000 cardholding Colorado residents.
Meanwhile my home town Shreveport, Louisiana was recently rated the worst city in the US to find a job, number 182 of 182 cities surveyed. People in Louisiana are feeling left out and left behind. Please let us follow Colorado's example, legalize freedom and help us get this industry moving forward in our state. Thank You
Why is this important?
59.3 percent of the United States population now lives in a state where marijuana has been legalized to some degree.
63 million Americans (one in five) now live in states where adults are legally allowed to use marijuana recreationally.
Polls show that 60 percent of Americans support the legalization of cannabis, with a majority indicating that enforcing prohibition isn’t worth the cost.
Louisiana citizens deserve to have the same freedoms as US citizens in other states. Louisiana should use cannabis legalization as a means to reform our notoriously excessive criminal justice system and as a way to potentially bring thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars to our state.
Louisiana needs to stop discrimination against its cannabis supporters, we need to stop arresting, and giving criminal records to own citizens for using a plant that is perfectly legal for Americans to use in other states.
... I hope and pray this petition actually does some good. Thanks for your signatures!