Regulators in Georgia have granted manufacturing licences to two companies and released regulations permitting independent pharmacies to sell cannabis oil to eligible patients. The dispensaries, operated by Trulieve Georgia and Botanical Sciences in Marietta and Macon respectively, hope to offer medical marijuana as a treatment for more than 16 conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder and Crohn’s disease. But even with the opening of dispensaries offering THC oils, the cost will remain prohibitive for some patients, who have to pay up to $375 for a 50 millilitre vial. The state General Assembly legalised medical cannabis treatment with the Haleigh’s Hope Act in 2015, granting low-THC cannabis oil to eligible patients. It followed that up with “Georgia’s Hope Act” in 2019.
