Georgia medical marijuana stores open, ending long strugglePosted by On


MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s first medical marijuana dispensaries opened Friday, solving a yearslong bureaucratic puzzle where it was legal to treat medical conditions with cannabis products, but not legal to buy them.

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. opened dispensaries Friday in Macon and Marietta, with people lining up at both locations.

Jim Wages, the first customer in Marietta, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that his 19-year-old daughter Sydney uses cannabis oil to treat her epilepsy. Now he said he can buy it legally instead of importing it across state lines in violation of federal law.

“We just hit the lottery. We finally got to a point where we could actually walk in instead of having to meet in a parking lot and pick up our oil,” Wages said. “It’s such a relief.”

Products can bring relief to people suffering from seizures, Parkinson’s disease or cancers.

The state had approved Trulieve’s dispensary licenses Wednesday. Medical marijuana will be sold in the form of cannabis oil packaged as liquid tinctures, topical creams or capsules. Smokable products aren’t allowed. Recreational usage of marijuana remains illegal in Georgia, and products sold in Georgia are supposed to have less than 5% THC, the chemical that produces a high.

It’s been legal for people in Georgia to use low-THC cannabis oil to treat a variety of diseases since 2015, but a rollout of legal sales has been delayed for years by regulatory challenges. More than 27,000 Georgians have…

Original Author Link click here to read complete story..

News

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.