Georgia Senator offers better MMJ bill when HB 885 didn't do enough

​this is a lot better only problem is it only allows a 2oz limit

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New medical marijuana bill offered in Georgia

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March 13, 2014 - Legal Reform, Marijuana Legalization Issues, Medical Marijuana - Tagged:Georgia, HB885, medical marijuana

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Some lawmakers in Georgia have become frustrated with the way the medical marijuana bill (HB-885) has developed. In response State Senator Curt Thompson (D- 5) has filed SB-432 (Controlled Substance Therapeutic Relief Act) . The bill appears to address many of the issues raised in HB 885. While this bill was filed to late in the session to be considered, it can give guidance for medical marijuana legislation in 2015. Georgia CARE will read the bill carefully and report the findings.

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To amend Chapter 34 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to

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physicians, acupuncture, physician assistants, cancer and glaucoma treatment, respiratory

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care, clinical perfusionists, and orthotics and prosthetics practice, so as to repeal provisions

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relating to use of marijuana for treatment of cancer and glaucoma and provide for medical

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use of marijuana; to provide for a short title; to provide for legislative findings; to provide

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for definitions; to provide for additional debilitating conditions; to provide for controlled

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substances therapeutic relief, limitations, and rule making; to provide for registration of

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marijuana dispensaries; to provide for registration of qualifying patients and designated

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caregivers; to provide for the issuance, revocation, suspension, and expiration of registry

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identification cards; to provide for facility restrictions; to provide for dispensary locations;

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to provide for dispensing marijuana for medical use; to provide for a verification system; to

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provide for notices and civil penalties; to provide for annual reporting; to provide for

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confidentiality; to provide for presumptions; to prohibit discrimination under certain

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circumstances; to provide for enforcement; to provide for fingerprinting; to amend Chapter

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15 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to excise tax on marijuana

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and controlled substances, so as to repeal and reserve provisions providing tax excise

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exemption for medical marijuana; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws;

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and for other purposes.

Allen Peake , the GA representative that created the first bill intended for kid's with seizures to be allowed to use only CBD oil is from my old home town. That bill of his should not have been called a MMJ bill it was so restrictive and wrapped up with red tape. Even under his bill upon passage, not only would one still be breaking the law for growing, they still would be breaking the law for possessing any plant buds and any smoking of herb for medical use would still be illegal.


What really gets me about GA is there has been an old MMJ bill on the books at the Atlanta capital going all the way back to 1980, but the medical supply had to come from the University of Mississippi and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Drug Enforcement Administration stopped all transportation avenues of delivery in 1982. 2 years is what I call dragging your feet.


http://www.gacareproject.com/flash-back-how-georgia-legalized-medical-marijuana/


http://clatl.com/atlanta/doctors-wanted-for-georgias-medical-marijuana-law/Content?oid=7263262


Anyway, Georgia has had all of that time from 1980 up until now to get a real MMJ bill working as well as there have been pro-MMJ advocates that have tried to get MMJ passed in GA going back to the late 1990s, especially after California's 1996 Prop 215 passage got going. GA politicians could've pulled up that inoperable 1980 MMJ bill and rewrote the thing anytime during the 1980's or 1990's to allow cultivation in GA to solve the supply problem but never did.


After ALL this time of 3 + decades after the dysfunctional 1980 MMJ bill , and while 20 states have beat GA in getting some type of MMJ , GA is still without and way behind when they could've been the first. Then you have that Representative Allen Peake that writes up a joke of a bill that allows CBD oil only and the only grow facilities under his bill would be up to only 5 GA universities licensed to grow the Charlotte's Web CBD strain for the oil with no dispensaries , no home growing, and only for use for seizures.


From Allen Peake's own website >


“The scope of allowed diagnosis is very limited, only to seizure disorders -The application of the medical cannabis would only be allowed in oral or pill form, not smoked “


http://allenpeake.com/


I get that GA is in the deep south, but Arkansas is too and the MMJ bill that they had in 2012 that made it all the way to the ballot box for the people to vote on, even though it failed , it allowed way more than Allen Peake's bill. Even under the failed Arkansas MMJ bill, home growing was allowed and the scope of illnesses one could be recommended for by a doctor was wide with many illnesses.>


http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_Medical_Marijuana_Question,_Issue_5_(2012)

The main thing that I hate about MMJ bills that do not allow home growing is it creates a situation where the dispensaries can charge out the yin-yang since they know they are the only legal source and I've read that an ounce in a MMJ dispensary New Jersey has been as much as $600. There are too many people in medical need where the only affordable access to MMJ is by them growing their own. Maggie Hassan , governor of New Hampshire took out the home growing allowance in New Hampshire's MMJ bill before she signed it but just a few weeks ago, a lot of public pressure got the home growing put back into the New Hampshire MMJ bill.


Georgians need to fight for this right to grow their own. There will be so many officials stalling the grow facilities with nitpicking and red tape issues and on top of that, when the supply is finally available many people just won't be able to afford it.

This new bill is a new start for next year. As for HB855 they did add in provisions which would make it a federal crime to get the oil cause you had to get the oil from out of state and transport so called drugs here. They said anyone with children who possessed the oil they would be barred from prosecution from the state. They knew the bill was horrible and did nothing. Hopefully this bill doesn't get a whole lot of red tape because it is what should have been passed. I bet it would have passed this year if it had enough time as people here really woke up over the last few weeks about the benefits of this bill. I just Hope the integrity of this bill stays intact.

This whole CBD oil only bill is bullshit and even if it passes, I have a feeling it will end up like the 1980 bill, completely useless. How are the universities going to legally get a clone only strain? This is just one of the many issues that will come up because there State reps want to brag abut passing americas most restrictive MMJ law like its a good thing. This new bill looks alot better except for the finger print part. Its going to be too easy to cross reference this with the prints they take for concealed weapons permits. Doors will be kicked in.

they really need to stop this bible belt mentality because the bible says that god made herb and it was good, then he gave man all the seed bearing plants, all on the very first page. Most of the church people i know smoke. everyone aroumd here smokes and if they don't, they dont have a problem with me doing it.

the problem is all political. my friends mom is really into the local GOP and she asked me if i would put signs in my yard for her people , so i ask her, what is their MJ stance and she laughs at me like im making a joke. she smokes too yet she is sspending her time to help elect people who want to kick down her door, put her injail and take away her kid. shows you how stupid people can be.

they need full blown recreational legalization. i rthink it would be accepted by the majority of people and would really help Atlanta become the tourism city they are trying to make it. nobody gives a shit about the world of coke to travel 500 miles, but the world of coke on weed, the giant ferris wheel on weed, the aquarium on weed....oh yeah!