Lawmakers in Georgia have introduced several pieces of legislation in the last few years aimed at both offering safe access to medical marijuana to end-stage and chronically ill patients, as well as reducing the harm caused by the enforcement of outdated cannabis laws against citizens who possess small amounts of marijuana. In 2017 especially there has been a push to expand the Haleigh’s Hope Act, Georgia’s low THC cannabis oil law, by adding additional qualifying conditions. Currently, in order to qualify for cannabis oil in Georgia, the patient must meet the following requirements:
Just when you think the absurd war on cannabis is nearly over you come across a story like this. On March 28 The Shop By Stevie and The Moon, located in Trenton GA, was raided by agents from the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force, the Dade …
Three bills and one resolution related to marijuana were introduced in Georgia’s legislature during this session. Here’s the latest midway through the legislative session.
After only two weeks in session, three separate Bills regarding medical marijuana policy reform are waiting to be addressed by the Georgia State Legislature. Here’s a breakdown of those bills.
In the latest seat-squirming episode of “Politicians Who Wish They Were Doctors” we visit Georgia’s House Judicial Non Civil Committee, where politicians with all different shades of neckties gathered last week to debate what’s best for the health of hundreds of thousands of Georgia patients.
Photo source 11 Alive[su_dropcap style=”flat”]G[/su_dropcap]eorgia newspaper publisher Mike Buffington has raised the stakes of the medical marijuana conversation in Georgia over the last few weeks by publicly announcing his plans to grow medical marijuana for his son, who suffers from seizures. Now Mike has taken his bold effort one …
Deputies in Crawford County, Georgia, earned their pay this week by locking away a dangerous 72 year-old elderly man for the terrible crime of growing 22 medicine plants, also commonly known as “marijuana”. The bust took place last Saturday at about 8:00 PM in the middle Georgia town of …
As most everyone knows by now former Georgia governor, U.S. President and Sunday school teacher Jimmy Carter was recently diagnosed with cancer (melanoma) in his liver and brain, and his prognosis is not very good. In fact doctors initially told Mr. Carter he had about 3 weeks to live, but have …
Located along the Georgia coast about halfway between Savannah and Jacksonville is McIntosh County, population 12,000. Deputies in this small county make around 600 drug-related arrests per year. At a drug arrest rate of 50 people per 1,000 citizens, McIntosh County law enforcement certainly would seem to have enough …
Georgia State Representative Allen Peake (R-Macon) has spent the last year trying very hard to brand himself the “medical marijuana politician”, vowing to fight until Georgia’s most vulnerable patients, children with seizure disorders, are able to gain unfettered access to CBD-rich cannabis oil. In fact, so dedicated to this …
On Wednesday the Georgia Senate Health Committee approved a hotly debated medical marijuana bill with changes that have the potential to land desperate parents of sick children in prison. House Bill 885, also known as Haleigh’s Hope Act, is already one of the most restrictive medical marijuana bills …
The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a limited-access medical marijuana bill created to bring relief to children and adults suffering from seizure disorders. HB 885, or Haleigh’s Hope Act, would provide access to CBD-rich medical marijuana extracts for children suffering from a severe seizure disorder known as …
