The Connecticut Medical Marijuana program allows qualifying patients to obtain Medical Marijuana as treatment to debilitating diseases such as Cancer; HIV/AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Pain, Eating Disorders, Epilepsy and more. Connecticut became the seventeenth State to adopt such a program. The law was passed this year in May 2012. In order for a patient to be able to obtain a Connecticut Medical Marijuana license, the patient must first be examined by a physician.
If the registered physician deems the patient fit for the program, he/she will write a recommendation. In turn the patient would then go to the Department of Health where he/she could apply for a Medical Marijuana card. Only then you can expect to get a Connecticut marijuana card.
The Connecticut Medical Marijuana system is quite different from other states. There are a few modifications to the traditional Medical Marijuana programs. The first modification is that only qualified pharmacists would be able to apply for dispensary licenses, and dispensaries would not be able to grow. Registered Production facilities will supply the medicine and would be required to maintain consistency in potency of cannabis and purity in process. In order to apply for a dispensary license, the pharmacist would have to a fee of $25000.
In addition to this each dispensary will only be able to supply a monthly dose per patient, the dosage which would be determined by the Department of Health based on the doctor’s recommendation and analysis of the treatment.
As we can see that Connecticut is truly bringing in a Medical Marijuana system. Many people don’t understand what the concept of Medical Marijuana truly contains. It isn’t the “Marijuana on the streets” re-packaged and given a different name, far from it. In the future we will begin to see specific strains of marijuana grown to deal with certain issues. Medical Marijuana in fact will be a system that only ill people can access. The rest of the Marijuana industry would become “commercial cannabis” which would be a separate system.
The Connecticut Medical Marijuana program begins to outline the basic skeleton of the system. By limiting dispensaries to the care of pharmacists we can see that they have a genuine interest to supply top notch medicine. We should expect to see a few amendments within the system in terms of regulating the growing process of Medical Marijuana, Sterilization and standardization of strain potency, development of essential hemp oils, designer strains targeting specific diseases and more. The Medical Marijuana program should not be confused with regular marijuana. If you deal with medicine there must be a standard applied, you cannot simply give Marijuana to a patient and believe he/she would get better.
Medical Marijuana requires a treatment plan, quantities and phenotype analysis in terms of the disease or discomfort of the patient. It seems that Connecticut is one of the first states to actually understand the concept and have designed a law that will become the foundation of the Medical Marijuana system throughout the US and the world.
If the registered physician deems the patient fit for the program, he/she will write a recommendation. In turn the patient would then go to the Department of Health where he/she could apply for a Medical Marijuana card. Only then you can expect to get a Connecticut marijuana card.
The Connecticut Medical Marijuana system is quite different from other states. There are a few modifications to the traditional Medical Marijuana programs. The first modification is that only qualified pharmacists would be able to apply for dispensary licenses, and dispensaries would not be able to grow. Registered Production facilities will supply the medicine and would be required to maintain consistency in potency of cannabis and purity in process. In order to apply for a dispensary license, the pharmacist would have to a fee of $25000.
In addition to this each dispensary will only be able to supply a monthly dose per patient, the dosage which would be determined by the Department of Health based on the doctor’s recommendation and analysis of the treatment.
As we can see that Connecticut is truly bringing in a Medical Marijuana system. Many people don’t understand what the concept of Medical Marijuana truly contains. It isn’t the “Marijuana on the streets” re-packaged and given a different name, far from it. In the future we will begin to see specific strains of marijuana grown to deal with certain issues. Medical Marijuana in fact will be a system that only ill people can access. The rest of the Marijuana industry would become “commercial cannabis” which would be a separate system.
The Connecticut Medical Marijuana program begins to outline the basic skeleton of the system. By limiting dispensaries to the care of pharmacists we can see that they have a genuine interest to supply top notch medicine. We should expect to see a few amendments within the system in terms of regulating the growing process of Medical Marijuana, Sterilization and standardization of strain potency, development of essential hemp oils, designer strains targeting specific diseases and more. The Medical Marijuana program should not be confused with regular marijuana. If you deal with medicine there must be a standard applied, you cannot simply give Marijuana to a patient and believe he/she would get better.
Medical Marijuana requires a treatment plan, quantities and phenotype analysis in terms of the disease or discomfort of the patient. It seems that Connecticut is one of the first states to actually understand the concept and have designed a law that will become the foundation of the Medical Marijuana system throughout the US and the world.
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