A bill to legalize recreational marijuana is nipped in the bud. Brooke Thorington has more.
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The Louisiana Senate has passed legislation that significantly increases the penalty for a person convicted of producing fentanyl, which is a deadly opioid. Current law calls for a five to 15 year sentence, Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt’s legislation increases the penalty for a first offense to 10 to 40 years.

The House Commerce Committee approves legislation that cuts down on the number of hours in order for a person to earn a cosmetology license. Under the legislation proposed by Slidell Representative Mary DuBuisson the number of training hours would go down from 15-hundred hours to 12-hundred…
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But one salon owner told the committee that less time means fewer qualified students. The measure heads to the House floor for more discussion.

Festival International De Louisiane, the largest international music festival in the U-S gets underway in downtown Lafayette today. Marketing Director Carly Viator Courville says there are musical acts from France, Africa, Belgium and one of the headliners is a Grammy award winner from Louisiana…
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And the festival is free to the public.