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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 State commission rejects calls for growing medical marijuana in Georgia 🌿State commission rejects calls for growing medical marijuana in Georgia
GAINESVILLE — A state commission is backing Gov. Nathan Deal in refusing to support the cultivation and distribution of marijuana in Georgia for medicinal use.
“There’s no appetite for cultivation,” said state Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, a member of the Commission on Medical Cannabis. “Until you have a clear model … there are too many vague concepts about cultivation for me to be comfortable with it.”
Lawmakers last spring approved the use of cannabis oil to treat eight medical conditions, but the prospect of manufacturing and selling the drug in-state was left for the commission to review.
The majority of members voted Wednesday to expand the number of conditions legally treatable with the drug, but declined to pursue the issue of access any further.
Despite the setback, activists said they remained motivated.
“We really thought [the commission] was coming into it open-minded, but it doesn’t seem that way now,” said...
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