 | By DREW BROACH | Deputy metro editor |
DUEL FOR DISPENSARY: A former New Orleans Saints player, Tulane University, the chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party and a former New Orleans police superintendent are among the applicants for Louisiana’s coveted 10th medical marijuana pharmacy license, which grants access to an exclusive club of businesses selling legal marijuana to a market that has exploded in the past year.
BACKLASH: An Isidore Newman School student who reported in 2017 that a classmate sexually assaulted her was bullied and shamed by a group of students, parents and even Newman donors, according to thousands of pages of newly unsealed court records in her lawsuit against the school.
COULD BE WORSE: That tropical depression that is strengthening en route to the Gulf of Mexico seems unlikely to lay waste to Louisiana. But it could cause some problems along our coast. (Keep up with the tropics by subscribing to our free Hurricane Center newsletter.)
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