Medical marijuana now legal for those with certain diseases in Georgia

Medical marijuana cards will now be available to those suffering from debilitating diseases in Georgia.

Georgia mother Corey Lowe has been waiting for the day medical marijuana would be legal.

Her 13-year-old daughter, Victoria Lowe, suffers from epileptic seizures and the family learned the seizures would stop when she tried cannabis oil in Colorado.

“It worked remarkably,” Corey Lowe said.

The new medical marijuana law allows families like the Lowes to possess up to 20 liquid ounces of low grade THC cannabis oil.

But first you have to qualify. The Georgia Department of Public Health said in order to get the oil people have to live in Georgia for at least a year and an application would have to be submitted by a doctor.

“You visit your doctor, the doctor sends the information over to us electronically, then we let you know where the card can be obtained,” said Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Department of Public Health.

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