Georgia board picks 6 companies to sell medical marijuana
3 years, 5 months ago

Georgia board picks 6 companies to sell medical marijuana

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia board tasked with overseeing the state’s efforts to get patients access to medical marijuana has approved the six companies that will be allowed to sell the drug, a major step to finally getting patients legal access to the medication. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission voted Saturday to pick six companies from 69 that had applied for licenses. Specifically they’ll be able to sell medical marijuana oil that contains no more than 5% of the THC compound that is found in marijuana and which makes users high. The state capped the number of companies that can sell medical marijuana at six.

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Alabama approved a medical marijuana program in 2021. Patients are still waiting for it.
5 months ago

Alabama approved a medical marijuana program in 2021. Patients are still waiting for it.

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — When Amanda Taylor lived in Arizona, she used medical cannabis to relieve the symptoms of her multiple sclerosis, gastroparesis and other ailments. While licensed cultivators have marijuana plants nearing maturity, cannabis products can’t be recommended or sold to patients in Alabama while the entire program remains on hold. But at this point, it’s anger because greed is …

Alabama judge puts a temporary hold on medical marijuana companies
1 year ago

Alabama judge puts a temporary hold on medical marijuana companies

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A judge has temporarily blocked Alabama from issuing licenses to medical marijuana facilities amid an ongoing legal battle over how the state selected the winning companies. Montgomery Circuit Judge James Anderson issued a temporary restraining order late Wednesday to stop the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission from issuing licenses for “integrated” facilities that grow, transport and sell medical …

Company asks judge to block Alabama medical marijuana licenses
1 year, 4 months ago

Company asks judge to block Alabama medical marijuana licenses

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A company that failed to win a potentially lucrative medical marijuana license in Alabama asked a judge Tuesday to block the state from issuing the licenses to anyone, arguing a state commission improperly deliberated in private before selecting the winners. The filing is the latest legal skirmish in the battle over who will get licenses to grow …

Louisiana lawmakers: Strain too slow on medical marijuana
3 years, 1 month ago

Louisiana lawmakers: Strain too slow on medical marijuana

Associated Press  

— Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain came under fire Thursday from state lawmakers who complained his regulatory agency was moving too slowly in expanding the medical marijuana products available to patients. The News-Star reports that Strain, a Republican, told a special legislative commission looking at the state’s medicinal pot program that he won’t compromise public safety to fast-track new products. …

Georgia marijuana regulator inches toward issuing licenses
3 years, 6 months ago

Georgia marijuana regulator inches toward issuing licenses

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia regulator is getting closer to issuing licenses to grow medical marijuana, but isn’t quite there yet. “Let them go home to their families.” Joshua Littrell, CEO of Veterans for Cannabis, said he’s eager for the commission to issue licenses. The commission’s next step is to contact applicants “to find out interest or extensions or responses or …

NC medical marijuana legalization gets hearing in Senate
3 years, 6 months ago

NC medical marijuana legalization gets hearing in Senate

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A bipartisan effort to legalize marijuana for medical use in North Carolina got a legislative committee hearing on Wednesday. With nearly three-quarters of states already allowing medical marijuana, senators who unveiled their framework told colleagues the measure takes health and safety seriously while offering palliative care for those with painful or life-threatening illnesses such as cancer. “To …

Louisiana lawmakers weigh medical marijuana expansion, tax
3 years, 8 months ago

Louisiana lawmakers weigh medical marijuana expansion, tax

Associated Press  

— A House Republican leader’s bid to expand Louisiana’s medical marijuana program and allow smokable cannabis started to gain traction Thursday, as lawmakers advanced a bill that would tax the new therapeutic products. Houma Rep. Tanner Magee, the House’s second-ranking Republican, is proposing to authorize sales of raw, smokable marijuana for medical use — and to apply state sales tax …

Review: Chains, trade group members win pot licenses in Mo.
4 years, 10 months ago

Review: Chains, trade group members win pot licenses in Mo.

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Some of the biggest out-of-state marijuana chains and board members of a pot-related trade group in Missouri were among the top recipients of medical marijuana licenses in the state, according to a newspaper’s review of records. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewed records and business registration reports related to the state’s awarding of 338 licenses to grow, process …

After years of waiting, medical marijuana sold in Louisiana
5 years, 5 months ago

After years of waiting, medical marijuana sold in Louisiana

Associated Press  

— A Marine veteran struggling with PTSD and a woman fighting cancer became some of the first people to purchase medical marijuana in Louisiana on Tuesday, as the state became the first in the Deep South to dispense therapeutic cannabis, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to it. “That’s incredible.” GB Sciences, one of two state-sanctioned …

Louisiana medical marijuana could reach pharmacies next week
5 years, 5 months ago

Louisiana medical marijuana could reach pharmacies next week

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s first medical marijuana products are one step away from pharmacies, with final testing planned for this week. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain, whose department oversees the therapeutic cannabis program, said that if the product collected Monday from GB Sciences is free of contaminants, medical marijuana could reach patients early next week. Strain has said his department had to start …

Georgia Gov. Kemp signs medical marijuana bill
5 years, 8 months ago

Georgia Gov. Kemp signs medical marijuana bill

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Some Georgia patients will soon be allowed to legally buy the marijuana they are already allowed to possess. “We are ensuring that these families can purchase what works for their loved ones without creating a slippery slope.” The legislation allows the in-state production and sale of the marijuana oil and closes a loophole in a 2015 law that …

Georgia bill would allow medical marijuana production
5 years, 10 months ago

Georgia bill would allow medical marijuana production

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia may soon allow the production and sale of low-potency medical marijuana oil within the state. It would close a loophole created by the state’s 2015 medical marijuana law that allowed patients to possess the drug but provided no real way to obtain it. Current state law allows individuals with 16 specific conditions, including cancer, seizure disorders and …

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