The state of Georgia will award six companies special licenses on Saturday that will allow them to produce and distribute low-THC cannabis oil to nearly 14,000 legally registered patients across the state.

The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission went through more than 70 applications by businesses wanting the right to manufacture the medical cannabis oil.

It will narrow the field down to two Class One production license contracts to companies with a production space capacity of 100,000 square feet, and four Class Two production license contracts to companies with a production space capacity of 50,000 square feet.

The contracts come after years of lobbying by parents and families of children and others who need the low-THC oil to help control and ease debilitating and incurable conditions.

Jimmy Wages’ daughter Sydney needs the oil to help control seizures.

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