Georgia State rep struggling with medical marijuana bill
ATLANTA — More than 100 legislators have signed onto a measure to expand the state’s medical marijuana law and allow for production of cannabis oil in Georgia.
Moultrie Rep. Sam Watson isn’t among them.
Watson voted for a bill last year, the Haleigh’s Hope Act, that allows Georgians with a qualifying condition to possess medical cannabis oil.
Georgians who use the oil in Georgia still risk arrest when transporting it here because cannabis and its extracts are still deemed illegal under federal law.
But Watson says he’s reluctant to expand Georgia’s law. The vegetable farmer said he has plenty of questions about, among other things, how the oil would be produced.
“I’ve been struggling with it. You want to help people,” he said. “But I just have a lot of questions, and I want to see how it works out through the process.”
He’s not the only one with reservations....
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