Georgia cannabis law
Key points
Legal status
Medical Program
Possession limits
| Medical patients | 20 fluid ounces of low-THC oil |
| Recreational users | Illegal |
State taxes
| Medical patients | $3.50 per gram of marijuana Controlled Substances Tax |
| Recreational users | Not applicable |
Cultivation
Cultivation is illegal
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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
Caregivers
No
Estimated Number of Registered Patients
14,000
Source: WXIA
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.”
