ATLANTA — Supporters of a Georgia medical marijuana cultivation bill delivered a petition to Gov. Nathan Deal’s Atlanta office on Tuesday bearing 410 pages of their fellow supporters’ signatures.

House Bill 722 would license up to six companies to grow specially bred marijuana in Georgia and manufacture and distribute liquid marijuana products to patients who have any one of 17 diagnoses — and a doctor’s recommendation. The list of eligible illnesses in the proposal would include Alzheimer’s and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

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