Ray Glier is a freelance journalist in Atlanta. He has covered local and national sports for 45 years for The New York Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and many others.
For months, rival companies that want to produce low-THC cannabis oil for medical purposes in Georgia have not been able to pry open the black box of the state’s 2019 Hope Act to see how six firms — out of 69 bidders — were awarded licenses to dispense the marijuana extract to patients across the state. And neither the state’s Open Records Act nor legislators trying to see the process have had success.
