Standing up the industry — with growers, processors, dispensaries and doctors — took longer than expected. The law needed to be tweaked, rules to needed to written and legal battles fought over who won licenses.
Here’s what prospective users need to know about medical marijuana.
Who is eligible to get a prescription for medical marijuana in Maryland?
State law says the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission “is encouraged to approve” medical marijuana prescriptions for:
Patients with chronic or debilitating diseases or medical conditions who have been admitted to hospice or are receiving palliative care;
Patients with a chronic or debilitating disease whose symptoms include (or for which the treatment produces side effects that include) cachexia, anorexia, or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures; or severe or persistent muscle spasms; and Patients who are diagnosed with any condition that is severe, for which other medical treatments have been ineffective, and for which the symptoms “reasonably can be expected to be relieved” by the medical use of marijuana.
The commission specifically lists glaucoma and post-traumatic stress disorder as qualifying conditions.
Put down stuff you don't have just to get weed, and the state will use it against you later to take your guns.
ReplyDeleteSo basically you have to make a choice between your health and your safety. Ridiculous
DeleteOr your job. They basically passed a discriminatory law. Choose to as stated protect yourself, be able to work, or be able to use cannabis to treat pain. People can go to work wacked out of their mind on opiates but if they use cannabis to treat pain they can be fired. Maryland is run by a bunch of senseless people. This program only benefits people who do not work! Again the working class gets the shaft. Typical Maryland legislature!
DeletePretty much anyone who wants it will be able to get it.
ReplyDeleteMarijuana is harmless compared to the opiates the dr hand out. I am one of the lucky ones, i have chronic pain and have been on 3 different opiates over the past 8 years and have never become addicted, thank God. I also am not a pot smoker but I would rather use Marijuana the opiates any day.
ReplyDeleteI'll wait and buy it when (not if) Maryland legalizes it. 2-3 years max, and it will be on the shelf for adult public recreational use. The gun control fanatics are trying to use medical marijuana for gun confiscation, not because of patients being "intoxicated" but for the underlying medical conditions that warrant the need for medical marijuana. Admit you have a medical problem by obtaining a pot prescription, and they want your guns. Your medical privacy rights go out the window when you get a pot prescription. At least that's how it is until it is overturned by the courts. The gun control fanatics will stop at nothing to find a way to disarm lawful citizens. Once legal for recreational use, the excuse to try and take a citizens guns away for marijuana use will be null and void.
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