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What is a Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Card?
Pennsylvania medical marijuana card is a card that allows you to consume marijuana for medical purposes. Apart from consumption, a cardholder can also cultivate cannabis in Pennsylvania. For a medical marijuana card, you need a recommendation letter that states that you have a mental illness and marijuana may help you alleviate the symptoms.
Qualifying Conditions for Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Card
A health debilitating medical conditions under the law are one of the following:
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Anxiety
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Autism
- Cachexia and wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Crohn’s Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Tourette’s Syndrome
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Terminal illness
Becoming A Caregiver In Pennsylvania
Requirements For Becoming A Caregiver In Pennsylvania
- A person must be at least 21 years old,
- A person must be a Pennsylvania resident with a valid driver’s license or identification card(with current address).
- A person must complete a criminal history background check.
- A person must not be convicted of a criminal offence relating to the sale or possession of drugs, narcotics, or a controlled substance in the last five years.
- A person must register and obtain an ID card that will allow you to pick up medical marijuana at a Pennsylvania dispensary.
How To Get Registered With Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Registry?
To get your medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, firstly, you need to get registered with the state by creating your profile in Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Registry.
While creating your profile, you need to fill in your basic information such as your legal name, current address, and contact information. To get registered for the medical marijuana program, a person must have a Pennsylvania driver’s license or an ID card issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Registering As A Caregiver For An Existing Patient
- To have the name of the patient and caregiver Registry.
- Patient ID number,
- Date of birth,
- Click on the Patient and Caregiver Registry,
• Go on the caregiver section and select ‘Adult Patient Caregiver Registration’ if the patient is an adult who has or will have a patient ID card to visit a dispensary.
• Go for the caregiver section and select ‘Caregiver registering for an existing patient’ if the patient is registered and is a minor. These patients will not get an ID card of their own or visit a dispensary. - Fill out all the information and submit to register and create an online profile. (A patient and caregiver will require different email addresses, and they cannot share the same email address).
- Wait for an email with the instructions for completing your background check.
- It will take four to six weeks for your application to go through the approval process.
- After getting notified on your email by the Department of Health, you need to return to the ‘Patient and Caregiver Registry’ to pay the fee to get your medical marijuana caregiver card.
Registering As A Caregiver For A New Patient
- Firstly, you need to go to the patient and caregiver registry. In the caregiver section, click on the ‘Caregiver Registering for a New Patient.
- Fill out the information and click on the submit to register and create a caregiver profile.
- You can check our email for instructions to complete the background check.
- It will take four to six weeks for your application to go through the approval process.
- After getting notified on your email by the Department of Health, you need to return to the ‘Patient and Caregiver Registry’ to pay the fee to get your medical marijuana caregiver card.
In case your patient is a minor, a person who needs in-home support, or a person with a disability. These patients will not get their own ID card or visit a dispensary.
Is Your Medical Marijuana Registration Expired?
Here’s how you can renew it again:
Well, before your patient Id card gets expired, you will receive an email 60 days before. At that time, you can renew your card.
How To Renew Your Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Card?
- Firstly, submit an online application:
• Log in to your patient account as a returning user,
• At the top of the page, you can choose profile settings.
• After that, you can review and update personal information. Make sure that all the information should match your PA driver’s license or state-issued ID.
• Save your changes and click ‘Renew my registration.’ - Secondly, check your email:
After renewing online, you will receive a verification email with the next proceeding steps. - Third, get connected to physicians:
Get patient certification from any licensed physician. You do not need to see the same doctor who issued your initial patient certification. - Check Your Mailbox:
At last, after getting certified by a practitioner, a new card will be mailed to you at the address you listed in the patient portal. The new card that you receive has an issued date for the day after your original card expires.
7 Facts About Medical Marijuana In Pennsylvania
- In Pennsylvania, medical marijuana is legalized in the year 2016, signed into law by Governor Tom Wolf.
- The recreational use of marijuana is illegal, but the possession of small amounts is decriminalized in several of the state’s largest cities.
- On 1 August 2018, the state allows the sale of cannabis flowers after receiving overwhelming feedback from patients.
- The smoking of flowers remains illegal in Pennsylvania state.
- Pennsylvania prohibits any smokable cannabis, only allowing other specific forms including pills and capsules, oils, gels, creams, ointments, tinctures, and liquid. The flower can only be consumed in vaporable form.
- Both patients and caregivers are allowed to possess up to a 30-day supply of medical cannabis.
- Growing is not yet permitted in Pennsylvania.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I go to a dispensary before my card arrives in PA?
Can you fail a drug test if you have a medical card Pennsylvania?
Can you drive if you have a medical marijuana card in PA?
Does Pa medical marijuana card show up on the background check?
The medical marijuana status of a person is a part of a person’s health records, which are considered personal records and hence cannot be shared. There’s a little chance a medical marijuana card will show up on a background check if you are a federal employee because marijuana is illegal under federal law.
What disqualifies you from getting a medical marijuana card in PA?
- You are not experiencing a qualifying medical condition
- Not being 21 years old at the time of application
- Your doctor doesn’t have the authority to write medical marijuana recommendations.
- Prior felony charge
- You Provided the wrong information during registration.
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Do I Need A Physician To Apply For My Medical Marijuana Card In Pennsylvania?
Yes. You will need a physician to apply for the card first but make sure your practitioner is licensed
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