Georgia’s medical cannabis program has hit an important milestone. Enrollment in the registry of patients eligible to receive the drug hit 25,000 during the weekend.
That growth means the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission, the state agency that operates the program, is authorized to open additional dispensaries. As a result, the six production companies licensed by the commission to grow marijuana and produce medical cannabis products from the leafy crop now are operating 13 dispensaries across Georgia.
It wasn’t until 2019 that the legislature passed a bill setting up a licensing process for production companies to grow marijuana indoors under close supervision, convert the leafy crop to cannabis oil, and sell the product to patients with a doctor’s prescription who signed up for the state registry. Under the legislation, the number of dispensaries will increase by an additional dispensing license for each of the six production companies with every increase in the registry of 10,000 patients.
