Medical marijuana bill fails | State Legislature | Macon.com

“For these families, their reality is … a child who is going to have one hundred seizures tomorrow,” said Peake, R-Macon, author of House Bill 885, which would have decriminalized possession of a liquid medicine derived from cannabis that’s used to treat pediatric seizures.

With just more than two hours remaining in this year’s session, Peake had pinned his hopes on a maneuver that unhitched his bill from an unrelated issue of requiring insurance companies to cover pediatric autism treatment.

Earlier, the autism bill was linked with his medical marijuana effort.

But in the last hour of this year’s session, the Senate failed to take up the medical marijuana issue for a final vote.

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