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.