Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center Baton Rouge LA, part of the Southern University System, together with Ilera Holistic Healthcare (Ilera Holistic), on July 1, 2020 became the nation's first historically Black university (HBCU) to launch its own THC medical cannabis products. The university and Ilera share one of two cannabis licenses in the state of Louisiana. The launch of this historic brand, called AYO, comes on the heels of Louisiana's unprecedented extension in June of its own medical marijuana program. The goal of this program is to provide quality med...