Medical marijuana gets approval to distribute to residents in Georgia

January 28, 2023
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One resident said that her family has battled for legal access to medical cannabis for years, but to no avail.

ATLANTA — The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission voted to approve regulations for two companies that received licenses to manufacture and distribute low THC oil on Wednesday.

Despite that, there’s still no timeline on when that could begin. Now, the bureaucracy holding things up is incredibly frustrating to Georgia families.

“This is seven years of frustration to get to this point but at least we’re finally hopefully making progress,” Atlanta resident Shannon Cloud said.

Cloud added that for her family has battled for legal access to medical cannabis for years, but to no avail.

“We got involved in this fight because of my daughter who has seizures and through this process, we learn just how many people there are in Georgia that need this medicine and can truly benefit from it,” Cloud said

She added that the oil can help her daughter speak and think more clearly but access feels impossible.

“We passed a law that said that we can possess the oil, but we have no way to legally purchase it in Georgia and so families have had to get really creative, often breaking state and federal laws in order to get theiir hands on it and quite frankly many people haven’t been willing to take that risk,” Cloud went on. [Read More @ 11Alive]

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