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Parents: Allow medical marijuana to be manufactured in Georgia

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 08:45

Georgia for the first time this year approved a limited medical marijuana law to help some of the state’s most dire patients — many of them children. It only allows families to possess cannabis oil, making no attempt to address the oil’s manufacture or how to buy or obtain it.

Now, parents and advocates want lawmakers to go one step further: Allow growers to harvest and distribute cannabis oil in-state.

The newly formed Georgians for Freedom in Healthcare vowed Tuesday to lobby full force at the state Capitol once lawmakers convene again in January —echoing advocacy efforts from years past that finally won passage of Georgia’s landmark law.

A bottle of Palmetto Harmony cannabis oil. The company is one of only three currently shipping low-dose cannabis oil to Georgia. Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com

Led by parents Shannon and Blaine Cloud, whose 10-year-old daughter, Alaina, has a severe form of...

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