The state of Georgia's medical cannabis program is in the federal crosshairs. The Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Diversion Control Division is notifying pharmacies across the state that they could be in violation of federal law if they possess or sell medical cannabis.
Earlier this year, Georgia became the first state in the nation to authorize pharmacies to sell medical cannabis. But now the DEA may be ready to shut down their medical cannabis sales -- never mind Georgia law. Pharmacists like Ira Katz of Little Five Points Pharmacy in Atlanta began gearing up this past October to sell the low-THC oil product under the authority of the Georgia Board of Pharmacy.
He received an email from the DEA's Diversion Control Division as well as a written letter.
"It just doesn't make any sense to me that people can go to a dispensary and not to a pharmacy," he said. "We would be buying it from the same growers." Katz believes cannabis needs to be reclassified and allowed in independent pharmacies like his.
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