Status
Low THC
Law Signed:
2015
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- AIDS
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Autism
- Cancer
- Crohn’s disease
- Hospice care patients
- Intractable Pain
- Mitochondrial disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Post-traumatic stress syndrome
- Severe or end stage Peripheral neuropathy
- Seizure disorder
- Sickle cell disease
- Tourette’s syndrome
PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS
20 ounces of infused cannabis oils containing not more than 5 percent THC and an amount of CBD equal to or greater than the amount of THC “if such substance is in a pharmaceutical container labeled by the manufacturer indicating the percentage of tetrahydrocannabinol.”
HOME CULTIVATION
No
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES
In May 2021, Governor Brian Kemp signed legislation into law, Senate Bill 195, permitting the establishment of up to 30 state-licensed retailers of high-CBD/low-THC oil products to qualified patients. The new law takes effect on July 1, 2021.
CAREGIVERS
No
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
- 25,000
- Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
RECIPROCITY
Yes. Senate Bill 16, signed into law in May 2017, states that Georgia law exempts any person who has “in his or her possession a registration card issued by another state that allows the same possession of low THC oil as provided by this state’s law.”