Georgia-Medical Marijuana Bill Breezes Through House Vote

Wow...I knew we were going to get some frozen precip today but I did not realize that Hell had started to freeze over!

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Legislation making it legal to possess medical marijuana in Georgia breezed through the state House on Wednesday, setting up a potential confrontation with the Senate.

House Bill 1, sponsored by Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, passed the House 157-2. The bill was first amended, however, to add sickle cell disease back into the list of disorders that could qualify a patient to use the drug. The amendment came after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that sickle cell had been deleted over the objections of many African-American lawmakers.

Qualified seizure disorders under the bill are cancer, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, among others.

Medical marijuana bill breezes through House vote photo
Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon shows a bottle of medical cannabis oil as he presents his House Bill 1 to the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee on February 3. The bill passed the House on Wednesday and heads for hte Senate. BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
Peake told reporters after the vote that he hopes the Senate quickly passes the bill as written and sends it to Gov. Nathan Deal’s desk. His fear, however, is that the Senate instead will strip every disorder except childhood seizure disorder from the bill.