Georgia: Poll Shows Massive Support For Medical Marijuana Expansion

[Jacob Redmond]

A new statewide poll just released to 11Alive News shows Georgia voters massively support expanding the current medical marijuana bill.

According to Georgians for Freedom in Health Care 84.5% approve expanding the law to allow for in state cultivation and production of medical marijuana under strict regulation and security.

Currently Georgia law allows permits to patients with certain illnesses to obtain medical cannabis, but it can not be grown or produced in the state.

State Representative Allen Peake who authored the current legislation and is pushing for expansion said, "There is no issue in Georgia that unites our fellow citizens like this one. People all across our state, young and old, black and white, need this medicine and they expect our government to create an infrastructure where they can have access to a safe and legal product."

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal recently expressed concerns with the idea, and said he is yet to see evidence there is a proper way to legalize cultivation in the state.

That has parents of children who are already permitted to use cannabis oil concerned.

11Alive has been following the Cleveland family on their journey to obtaining and using the medicine for their 2-year-old daughter Lainey who suffers from a severe seizure disorder.

Lainey is a permitted user and has been using cannabis oil for a few months.

Her mother Erin said she is seeing the improvements now that Lainey is having fewer seizures and has more energy.

She continues to fight alongside other families and lawmakers for an expansion of the current bill in Georgia.

"To wake up and know that she's here, and she's breathing, and she knows who I am there's not much more you can be thankful for," said Erin Cleveland, Lainey's mother.

An expansion of the medical marijuana bill will be pushed by Representative Peake and others during the next legislative session in January.

First the last Georgia Commission on Medical Cannabis meeting is from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday.

After that meeting, members of that commission will put together a report on how to cultivate and produce medical marijuana in Georgia and then present it to Governor Deal for consideration.

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[420 Warrior]

Like I've said in previous postings, there is no shortage of Cannabis users here in GA, but getting them really involved and vocal about making real changes here is a direction where I'd really like to see improvement. It's one thing to sign a voting poll but it's a whole other thing to actually get out and talk to people about it and inform people about changes they may not be aware of.

I'd so love to be proven wrong in the fact that I don't see this state legalizing anytime soon and I really badly want to have a feeling of optimism here in this state but it's making it really hard for me to have those feelings when I don't see any signs of real activism being done here.

My fellow Georgians, I'm calling you out, where are all my fellow Cannabis using Georgians who want Cannabis legalized in this state? Can we not get together and have meetings and rallies and petitions and hand out fliers and get out and talk to people and prove ourselves once and for all that WE WANT CANNABIS LEGALIZED IN GEORGIA!!!

I'll make a bet with anyone here, right here and now that I don't get more than a couple of responses from anyone here in Georgia on what I've just said..watch and see what I say. Any takers?

 

[Stage]

420 Warrior,
I am compelled to respond to your post. The politics in Ga are deeply rooted in conservative values and the Gov doesn't appear to be sensitive to the matter. Like you, I am not optimistic about the state of Cannabis legislation. However, there is a hope deep inside that an activist movement is ripe for formation. The apathy couldn't get any worse. Could it?

 

[420 Warrior]

420 Warrior,
I am compelled to respond to your post. The politics in Ga are deeply rooted in conservative values and the Gov doesn't appear to be sensitive to the matter. Like you, I am not optimistic about the state of Cannabis legislation. However, there is a hope deep inside that an activist movement is ripe for formation. The apathy couldn't get any worse. Could it?

I've been trying for more years now than I care to even mention to get more out of Georgian's as well as southerners in general, but for what ever reason, most people here in the south don't ever seem to want to stand up for themselves and take back control of their civil liberties, right thing to do or not. I apologize if I get a little frustrated at times and it spills out here, but when I can clearly see so much progress being made elsewhere and so little progress here, it just makes me that much more passionate and want it that much more but I just cant understand why I seem to be the only one, or at least one of the very few people who feels that way? It's a hard pill to swallow.

We're so close now and we're just letting a golden opportunity slip right through our fingers people, it's time to quit secretly wishing for change and get out there and actually do something to make change happen. GET INVOLVED! STAY INVOLVED!