MMJ Card | Medical Marijuana Doctors New York

A person may be eligible for medical marijuana in New York if they have been diagnosed with at least one of the below-mentioned severe debilitating conditions:

• Cancer
• Crohn’s Disease
• HIV infection or AIDS
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Parkinson’s disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Spinal cord injury with Spasticity
• Epilepsy
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Neuropathy
• Huntington’s disease
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Chronic pain

Firstly, a caregiver needs to prove his residency with valid Id proof or a Driver’s license. Along with that, a caregiver needs to be listed on the patient’s application to be approved. While a certified patient applies for a medical marijuana card, they may appoint up to two caregivers to help the patient obtain and administer medical marijuana.
To become a caregiver, an individual:

• Must be at least 21 years old,
• Must be a current citizen of New York State,
• Must not be a patient’s certifying physician.
• Must have a legitimate New York State-issued driver’s license or a New York State ID card;
• Must pay the $50 application fee,

Once the patient application is confirmed, each caregiver must sign up with the DOH to acquire a registered ID card that the caregiver can use to get marijuana on behalf of the patient.
A caregiver can follow the same registration instructions that are available for patients.

Each assigned caregiver must also fulfill the following requirements of a patient:

• They must get a registry ID card for each certified patient;
• A caregiver must not provide care to more than five accredited patients at a time;
• Must not possess at any one time an increasing quantity of medical cannabis that exceeds the amount allowed for each certified patient;
• A caregiver must not include any form of medical marijuana other than the forms that are specifically recommended for the use of certified patients,
• A caregiver is not supposed to share, sell, trade, or otherwise deliver medical cannabis to anyone who is not a registered patient.

New York Medical Marijuana Possession/Use Limits:
Patients or caregiver is qualified to possess only up to 2 ounces of cannabis in various forms in 30 days. The state has up to eight dispensaries that supply multi-level CBD and THC products like a tincture, vape pens, and powder.

Recreational marijuana is not legal in New York, but the possession of medical marijuana is legal in certain circumstances.

• New York restricted the use and possession of medical marijuana as they started requiring a prescription from those who are looking to acquire marijuana as per the Boylan Bill. This law continued till 1927. After that, the state displaced medical purposes and banned the use of cannabis.
• The decriminalization of marijuana started in mid-1977. As per the new bill, possessing 25 grams or less at a time may subject to an infringement of a $100 fine.
• In 2014, legislation permitted the use of cannabis for medical purposes when Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a bill regarding the legalization of marijuana.
• Passed in 2016, as per Article 221 of New York State Penal Law, all parts of the Cannabis plant either cultivated or not, or the seeds of it, or the resin extracted from any portion of the marijuana plant, or any mixture, composite, production, salt, derivative, its roots, or polish, Stalks from the adult plant, grain, oil and cake prepared from it, cleaned seeds and compounds or preparations from them are not considered as cannabis.
• New York legislators struggled and failed to pass an adult-use legalization act during the 2018-2019 sessions. Governor Andrew Cuomo was in favor of legalizing the recreational use of marijuana to all, but due to some budget plans, the legalization measures were delayed.

• Patients must obtain a recommendation letter from a licensed Physician within the New York State.
• A recommendation is generally unacceptable if the diagnosis is written plus signature.