First Slice 1-7-14: Metro Atlanta parents to push Georgia lawmakers to make medical pot legal
GOP primary season, possible college smoking bans, and more!
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A group of metro Atlanta parents are planning to lobby state lawmakers for the legalization of medical marijuana in Georgia. “These kids in Colorado are not getting high, they’re taking it in an oil format, they’re not smoking it,” one Mableton parent told WSB-TV. “It’s basically safer than any medicine we can prescribe our children today.”
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