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News Articles: cannabis business

Macon area elected officials and community members toured the new Fine Fettle medical cannabis distribution and production facility on Joe Tamplin Industrial Boulevard on July 17, 2023.

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Cannabis oil production facility set to open in Macon

The 115,000-square-foot facility is expected to be operational in late September and will distribute low-THC oil products to those with medical cards in Georgia.

July 19, 2023
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  • Eliza Moore
 Republican state Rep. Alan Powell of Hartwell says his new legislation is aimed at lifting the veil of secrecy that shrouds medical cannabis regulation, but transparency experts aren’t so sure. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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Secrecy in Georgia’s medical cannabis regulation frustrates efforts to deliver relief to patients

For months, rival companies that want to produce low-THC cannabis oil for medical purposes in Georgia have not been able to pry open the black box of the state’s 2019 Hope Act to see how six firms — out of 69 bidders — were awarded licenses to dispense the marijuana extract to patients across the state. And neither the state’s Open Records Act nor legislators trying to see the process have had success.

February 06, 2023
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  • Ray Glier
Liz Kirkaldie says her grandson's marijuana use led to his schizophrenia diagnosis. She says she's skeptical the labels will work, "But if it helps even one person? Great."

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California may require labels on pot products to warn of mental health risks

A proposed bill would require cannabis products to carry large warnings, similar to cigarettes. But the state's legal pot industry says more rules make it harder to compete with the illicit market.

June 17, 2022
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  • April Dembosky
Hip-hop artist Clifford Joseph "T.I." Harris Jr.

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Georgia Medicinal Cannabis Company Partners With Rapper 'T.I.' Harris

In a sign of the continuing public shift on attitudes towards the use of cannabis across the nation and in Georgia, rapper "T.I." Harris has partnered with a local cannabis company, Harvest Select, as they expand their operations across the state.

December 17, 2020
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  • Sarah Rose
A worker picks Cannabis inside a greenhouse on Nov. 10, in Kasese, Uganda. Uganda is one of several African countries looking to produce medical cannabis for export to Europe and America. On Wednesday, the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted to reclassify cannabis.

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U.N. Commission Removes Cannabis From Its Most Strict Drug Control List

The vote follows World Health Organization guidance saying that due to cannabis' therapeutic use and other factors, it "is not consistent with the criteria" for a Schedule IV drug.

December 02, 2020
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  • Bill Chappell

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