Georgia Medical Cannabis Program Finally Revamps and Expands

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By late 2019, the state still hadn’t appointed any members to the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission. This will be a significant and positive change for a state that has gone too long without a true medical program. The decision means that thousands of patients in the Peach State will now finally be able to obtain medical marijuana oil, which has long been unavailable under the state’s medical marijuana law. In May, Kemp signed a bill into law that will allow as many as 30 state-licensed medical cannabis businesses to to sell high CBD-cannabis. Those businesses are now permitted to sell medical marijuana oil, so long as it contains no more than five percent THC.  For Georgia’s medical cannabis patients who prefer oil consumption, it has been a long time coming.

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Georgia’s medicinal cannabis program is about to undergo a significant expansion after the state’s regulatory board “chose six companies Saturday that will be allowed to sell the drug, a decision that will finally give registered patients a legal way to obtain medication first approved six years ago,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The decision means that thousands of patients in the Peach State will now finally be able to obtain medical marijuana oil, which has long been unavailable...

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