WBA - Historic Marijuana Milestone: Georgia First In Nation Where Hundreds Of Drug Stores Will Sell Medical Cannabis | Benzinga
The Georgia Board of Pharmacy began accepting applications from nearly 120 pharmacies to provide medical marijuana products, making it the first state in the nation to allow the sale of low-dose cannabis at independent drug stores.
This expansion of medical marijuana sales to drug stores, known as the pharmacy rule, will vastly expand access to patients. There are only seven dispensaries in Georgia to serve people suffering from such illnesses as Parkinson’s disease, seizures, terminal cancers and PTSD.
The state's only two licensed cannabis producers, Botanical Sciences LLC and Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF), would provide the pharmacies with products. The two were the first in ...