Once upon a time on this very podcast, we told you a story about how California was the first state to legalize medical marijuana in 1996. The first! Those were our words! But it turns out an unlikely deep South state was technically the first. Here’s why you've never heard that Louisiana was the first state to legalize medical marijuana (technically.)

This is the first installment of a miniseries we're calling "Medicine vs. Marijuana," about the odd ways legal cannabis can intersect with our healthcare system.