Georgia House Votes to Expand Medical Cannabis Program

Lawmakers in the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday approved a
bill containing multiple medical cannabis expansion measures, Georgia
Recorder reports.

First introduced last year by state Sen. Matt Brass (R), Senate Bill 220
seeks to add new qualifying conditions to the program, expand consumption
methods to allow patients aged 21 and older to vape cannabis, and create
new rules for the medical cannabis card renewal process.

The original Senate bill proposed increasing the maximum THC content of
medical cannabis products from 5% to 50%. However, the version passed by
the House instead sets a 12,000 milligram THC cap on cannabis products,
incorporating feedback from a legislative investigation into the issue last
year, the report said.

“For the patients that this program is designed to serve, it’s not always
worked well enough. This bill is an effort to make sure that for the
patients, this program works better.” — State Rep. Mark Newton (R), who
sponsored the bill in the House, via Georgia Recorder

Before passing the proposal, House lawmakers incorporated feedback from a
legislative investigation into the issue conducted last year.

The proposal now returns to the upper chamber for reconsideration.

Georgia’s 2025-2026 legislative session ends on April 2.