re: Parents of teenage boy face prison, fines for treating his seizures with marijuana

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weed for medicinal purposes should be a no brainer for everyone; but I do understand that there are principled arguments on the other side

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What is fricked up, is that cannabis is legal in GA medically. Originally there were 8 specific cases where weed can be prescribed, and then later, "Senate bill 16", allowed for 6 additional conditions to be treated by cannabis.

Seizures is even one of the conditions that can be treated with cannabis, but the fricked up part, is how can a patient get this medicine? GA does not produce any medical marijuana for its approved patients, which can have up to 20 oz of low THC (less than .05%), so they must cross state lines to obtain the medicine, which is a felony to cross state lines with this specific medicine. The only other option is to buy it off the black market and good luck trying to find some kind bud with less than 5% THC.

Also Colorado is paving the way for all the states, as they have profited over a billions of dollars since the legality of it, all the while with providing more money for the schools, while reducing pain pill prescriptions (opiate epidemic) and alcohol sales. Plus not over filling the jail/prisons for people who use weed.