Dispensary owners in Georgia’s low-THC medical marijuana program have far fewer customers to serve than anticipated after state health officials said they dramatically overstated the number of patients in the program.
After previously reporting there were 50,000 MMJ patients in the state, the Georgia Department of Public Health is now saying that number is only about 14,000, according to Atlanta TV station WXIA.
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Officials told WXIA that the mistake was made because the state MMJ system included:
Expired patient registrations. Duplicate cards. Patients counted as caregivers. Roughly 3,400 patients who had died but not been removed from the registry.
Georgia’s health commissioner, Kathleen Toomey, told the TV station that the state relied on physicians to remove the names of cardholders who had died or stopped using low-THC products.
However, many physicians stopped doing so during the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.
A mistake of that
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