Status
Operational
Law Signed:
2015
LIMITED ACCESS
Patients may obtain ingestible and topical extraction-based formulations. Botanical cannabis and inhalation products are not dispensed.
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- AIDS
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Autism
- Cancer
- Crohn’s disease
- Epidermolysis bullosa
- 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
Yes
DELIVERY
No
CAREGIVERS
No
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
- 26,038
- Source: GA Access to Medical Cannabis Commission 1/15/25
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.”