DEA - DEA Threats Rankle Georgia Pharmacies Intending To Legally Sell Medical Marijuana Advocates Also Irked | Benzinga
Ira Katz’s Little Five Points Pharmacy is one of the dozens of independent drugstores that intended to provide medical marijuana (MMJ) after Georgia became the first and only in the nation to undertake a program of dispensing MMJ in a state where there are only seven dispensaries to serve some 15,000 patients and caregivers.
DEA Steps In
Then last week, the DEA sent Georgia pharmacies a warning letter reminding them that cannabis is still illegal at the federal level.
That put a damper on the pharmacy program that was meant to enable about 90% of Georgia's population to be within a 30-minute drive of a drug store that sells medical marijuana.
"I’m very, very, very disappointed with it,” Katz told 11Alive.com.
Katz said he received an email from the DEA last week and then a written letter Monday.
"It just doesn’t ...