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May 2nd, 2017 
Awake Goy Macon, Georgia — Though states around the country are legalizing both medicinal and recreational cannabis, many Americans in need of the plant still face difficulties obtaining it.
In Georgia, for example, which approved a medical marijuana program in 2015, only 1,300 patients qualify, and they are not actually allowed to obtain it.
The Associated Press notes Georgia’s law “now provides low-THC cannabis oil to more than a thousand patients. Enrollees can have it, but they can’t cultivate, import or purchase the drug.”
This stipulation leaves many Georgians without access to the plant they are ‘allowed’ to use.
Enter state Representative Allen Peake, who is evading the state’s edicts to provide cannabis oil to medical marijuana patients who are unable to get it themselves because of the law.
Peake previously authored the 2015 bill that allowed medical access to cannabis and is currently working to expand the legality of the plant.
In the meantime, he is providing the medicine to people all around the state.
AP reports that Peake imports the oil from outside Georgia but insists he does not know where it originates — and doesn’t want to know. “Quite frankly, I don’t know how the product gets here,” he says.
AP details his “quasi-legal” process:
“Each time one of the nondescript boxes arrives, Peake makes a significant donation to a foundation in Colorado that supports research of medical cannabis. He can’t make a direct payment, because that would be illegal. But with his donations of about $100,000 a year, he and his wife are able to supply the oil to hundreds of patients across Georgia.”
Peake and his wife distribute the cannabis oil for free because if they attempted to sell it, they would be committing a felony. Further, though medical marijuana is legal in Georgia, transporting it across state lines is not.
But that’s not the only reason Peake gives it away. He fundamentally believes in people’s right to medicate themselves. As the conservative Christian lawmaker — who also owns a successful chain of restaurants — told AP, “We’re going to do whatever it takes to be able to help get product to these families, these citizens who have debilitating illnesses.”
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