Four years after the state of Georgia approved the distribution of low-dose THC, medical marijuana may be sold at local pharmacies. By year’s end, patients who meet a very narrow criteria for medical cannabis use under Georgia’s law will be able to buy low-dose THC products at their local pharmacy.
“There are patients in my area that I talk to all the time who’ve been begging for this,” pharmacist Jonathan Marquess told CNN. The idea of selling medical cannabis through pharmacies in a traditionally conservative state has drawn attention.“My 20-year-old kids were like ‘Dad, you just went viral,’ And I’m like, ‘Ok, cool,’” Long told CNN.Three other states have laws that would allow pharmacies to sell marijuana, but they have not started doing this, Andrew Turnage, the executive director of the GA Access to Medical Cannabis Commission, told CNN.
“I’ve had many, many of my patients show me their cards,” said Marquess, who is vice president of the Georgia Pharmacy Association’s Academy of Independent Pharmacy.