Louisiana Gov. Indicators Invoice Enhancing Penalties for Smoking Hashish on School Campuses

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) has signed a invoice that may jail people for smoking hashish inside 2,000 ft of highschool and school campuses. In a press release posted to X final week, Landry mentioned he was “bored with going…to varsity and highschool campuses and being inundated with the odor of marijuana.” 

“And I’m bored with seeing medicine littering our highschool and school campuses, hurting out college students. These medicine take away from the household pleasant environments that out schools are purported to be – particularly on sport day.” — Landry in a press release posed to X 

The legislation creates strict penalties for smoking or vaping on or inside 2,000 ft of a college property or college bus by permitting for jail phrases as much as one and a half occasions the longest approved time period, with the sentences ineligible for parole, probation, or suspension. The legislation additionally permits these convicted of solely hashish offenses to serve as much as one 12 months in jail, with or with out arduous labor, and pay a $1,000 advantageous.   

Within the assertion, Landry mentioned the invoice “takes a large step” in defending kids. The invoice takes impact August 1.