Georgia Medical Marijuana Laws

Status

Operational

Law Signed:

2015

QUALIFYING CONDITIONS

Alzheimer’s disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Autism
Cancer (any cancer except skin cancer, unless it is metastatic skin cancer)
Epidermolysis bullosa
HIV when such disease is diagnosed as Stage III
Hospice care patients
Inflammatory bowel disease
Intractable Pain
Lupus
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

Qualified patients may possess a medical cannabis “product or products containing a cumulative total of 12,000 milligrams or less of THC.” State-authorized medical cannabis products must be packaged in a “pharmaceutical container labeled by the manufacturer indicating the amount of THC therein.” The law defines ‘medical cannabis’ to mean any “plant within the genus Cannabis and any part of such plant, including all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not.” Smoking or combustion of medical cannabis by any individual is not permitted. However, this prohibition “shall not include the vaporization of medical cannabis.”