It’s been about a month since Georgia’s first medical marijuana dispensaries opened, giving patients a legal way to buy cannabis oil.
Georgia’s Medical Cannabis Commission can issue licenses for up to 12 dispensaries. So far only two have opened in Marietta and Macon.
But only more severe conditions and diseases are covered, including the end stages of cancer, AIDS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
WABE politics reporter Rahul Bali tells “Morning Edition” host Lisa Rayam, the patients who currently qualify to be on the state’s low-THC registry, aren’t getting an ID card for back pain.
Bali sat down to discuss how the state could potentially expand access to medical cannabis in the next legislative session.
