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Georgia governor signs law granting AIDS patients access to medical marijuana

Gov. Nathan Deal signed Senate Bill 16 on May 9, which expands Georgia's Low THC Cannabis Oil Registry program to cover six more diseases and conditions, including AIDS. Registry participants are able to leg...

Georgia Senate approves medical marijuana law expansion to include AIDS

Pending the governor's signature, Georgia AIDS patients now have access to medical marijuana. Senate Bill 16 passed the Senate this morning with a vote of 45 to 6. It's a compromise version of the original H...

Georgia Senate agrees to compromise bill to allow AIDS patients medical marijuana access

The House Judiciary Committee passed a compromise version of House Bill 65 this morning, which means AIDS patients could be weeks away from access to medical marijuana to treat their symptoms. HB 65, introdu...

Bill allowing HIV/AIDS patients access to medical cannabis advances

Georgia House Bill 65, which aims to add HIV/AIDS as diagnoses for which medical cannabis can be prescribed, is all set to head to the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. The House’s working group on medica...

Georgia GOP lawmaker: Anti-gay policies driving party ‘toward extinction’

State Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon) says the prospect of Donald Trump in the White House “scares the bejeebies out of me” and laments that the party's treatment of the LGBT community, Hispanics and African-America...