Tragedy in Shreveport on Sunday as eight children are shot to death…
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The Louisiana Senate has approved legislation that could allow veterans and others suffering from PTSD and chronic depression to have access to psychedelic-assisted therapy. Mandeville Senator Patrick McMath’s legislation would give opioid settlement dollars to academic health centers to conduct clinical studies to determine if alternative treatments such as psilocybin (sigh-lo-SIGH-bin) and ibogaine (ib-OH-guh-een) work.
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The measure is waiting for discussion in the House.
Senate Finance will be going through the House approved budget over the next several weeks. Senate President Cameron Henry remains opposed to doubling the funding of LA Gator, the state’s voucher program. Henry says LA GATOR is only a year old, and the state should see whether the students in the program are improving academically and whether the state is receiving what it’s spending.