The commission in charge of the state’s medical marijuana program met on Wednesday of this week and adopted rules  for the manufacture and sale of low-THC cannabis oil for medicinal use.  The commission was created in 2019 by the Georgia General Assembly.

Some of the conditions that make patients eligible for cannabis oil include: those suffering from seizure disorders, Parkinson’s disease, terminal cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder and sickle-cell anemia.

The rules will govern various aspects of the program including the facilities that will produce the oil, the dispensaries where the oil will be sold, and the independent laboratories that will test the product.  The original law allowed each licensee to open up to five dispensaries for selling the product. However, licensees now will be permitted to add an additional dispensary because the enrollment in the registry has increased to more than 25,000

The state is facing a lawsuit filed by companies that were not awarded bids to grow the medicinal marijuana, including one company that planned to have a facility at the Trion Industrial Park in Chattooga County.