Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate for the Georgia Senate, outlined his support for marijuana legalization in a video posted to TikTok ahead of the state’s crucial runoff vote on January 5. Ossoff’s race alongside a second runoff election for the other Georgia seat in the Senate will determine which party [...]
Georgia could soon allow the production and sale of low-potency medical marijuana oil under a bill passed by the House on March 5, 2019. Two days before a legislative deadline typically requiring bills to pass at least one chamber by March 7, 2019, lawmakers voted 123-40 to clear the measure. [...]
A recent poll of Georgia voters finds that 55 percent favor adult-use legalization and only 33 percent oppose it, with 12 percent not sure. In contrast, a poll conducted in 2017 showed that only 46 percent favored legalization. The difference a year makes was less pronounced on the issue of [...]
On May 30, the New York Times published a story of a Macon, Georgia, couple who successfully treated their son’s severe seizures with marijuana—and lost custody of him as a result. The Brill Family Prescribed medication did not keep David Brill, a teenager, from experiencing daily seizures. His parents, Suzeanna [...]
More than 20 states could vote to legalize marijuana in November, according to recent news reports. That means 2016 could be the biggest year yet for cannabis reform. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that elections officials in 19 states have already received petitions to legalize the drug for recreation or [...]
A limited form of medical marijuana is now all but legal in Georgia. Geogia Gov. Nathan Deal The state legislature approved a bill in March that would allow patients with certain severe conditions to use a non-intoxicating form of cannabis known as CBD oil. This oil mostly benefits [...]
Remember the kids in high school who tried like hell to score weed but ended up with oregano instead? Well, put those kids in police uniforms and you have some idea of what happened to Dwayne Perry of Cartersville, Ga. Perry said he woke Oct. 21 to the sound of [...]
Authorities in Georgia said two inmates tried to smuggle marijuana into the prison using their dead grandmother’s casket. Emma Mae Faulk of Macon died Aug. 24 at 74 years old. Her body was shown for viewings at the Bentley Brothers Funeral Home. Henry Rouse Two of her grandsons, [...]
