To qualify for a Virginia Medical Marijuana Card, you must meet the following qualifications:
- Be diagnosed with a medical condition you believe will benefit from medical marijuana treatment.
- Have written certification recommendations from a registered Virginia physician.
- Proof of Virginia residency (current VA Driver’s License or State ID card).
To receive a medical marijuana card in Virginia, you must be diagnosed, by a licensed Virginia physician, with a medical condition that the physician deems can benefit from medical marijuana treatment.
Find out more from the organization Virginia Marijuana Card.
The Virginia Board of Pharmacy has established five zones that will each have five pharmaceutical processors operating so patients across Virginia have access to medical cannabis.
Dispensary products include capsules, sprays, tinctures, oils, creams, gels, lozenges, patches, troches, suppositories, and lollipops; the products must contain at least 5 mg of CBD or at least 5 mg of THCA per dose and cannot contain more than 10 mg THC per dose, or single unit.
Here are some of the most common conditions treated with medical marijuana:
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Cachexia and wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Crohn’s Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Tourette’s Syndrome
Ray Otton says
This explains the whole process:
https://www.vanorml.org/faqs
Obtaining the doctor’s cert is a piece of cake from this outfit – CANNABISMD
You can do it online with a video conference, takes 10 minutes and $99.
As typical, the private sector portion of the process takes about 1/2 hour total, the government bureaucracy then takes 30 days to mail the card.
The dispensary for this area is in an industrial park over in Portsmouth, about 5 minutes after the downtown tunnel.
It’s clean, modern and SAFE. The staff is very knowledgeable and courteous. The products are not outrageously expensive. (NOT government run, obviously).
Cash transactions only, and there is a 10% discount for seniors, military, Medicare or Medicaid.
Linda says
I’ve been fighting cancer for 2 years and my doctor has never said anything about this I’m in pain all the time if this would help is try it I’ve never done street drugs befoor but is try this
Kristin says
My mother[50] has skin cancer, Graves’ disease, and several others. This is a blessing for her , and myself. This is a medicine, prescribed to treat your symptoms that are outside of opioids. Give it a chance if you’re ready .
Paul Plante says
It is not a “street drug” when it is sold in a dispensary, and it has a history as a medicinal far longer that BIG PHARM and the AMA have been around, not to mention the federal government itself.
It’s called a “street drug” by people who are stupid and don’t know better.
If you go to the National Institute of Health U.S. National Library of Medicine site https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312634/ , you will find a scholarly article from Pharmacy & Therapeutics P T. 2017 Mar; 42(3): 180–188. on the subject entitled “Medicinal Cannabis: History, Pharmacology, And Implications for the Acute Care Setting” by Mary Barna Bridgeman, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP and Daniel T. Abazia, PharmD, BCPS, CPE, where we learn as follows:
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Cannabis is a plant-based, or botanical, product with origins tracing back to the ancient world.
Evidence suggesting its use more than 5,000 years ago in what is now Romania has been described extensively.
There is only one direct source of evidence (Δ6-tetrahydrocannabinol [Δ6-THC] in ashes) that cannabis was first used medicinally around 400 ad.
In the U.S., cannabis was widely utilized as a patent medicine during the 19th and early 20th centuries, described in the United States Pharmacopoeia for the first time in 1850.
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And then the AM came along and got it crushed.
Competition, you see.
Marijuana grows wild in America, is easily cultivated, and thus, was INEXPENSIVE and readily available!
And what a threat that was to the AMA doctors peddling the BIG PHARM horse****.
And having the financial horsepower to do so, they got it outlawed, using the movie Reefer Madness (1936) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQlcMHhF3w as their propaganda coup.
Marijuana is commonly used for nausea from chemotherapy.
Getting back to the science from the above:
CONCLUSION
Despite lingering controversy, use of botanical cannabis for medicinal purposes represents the revival of a plant with historical significance reemerging in present day health care.
Legislation governing use of medicinal cannabis continues to evolve rapidly, necessitating that pharmacists and other clinicians keep abreast of new or changing state regulations and institutional implications.
Ultimately, as the medicinal cannabis landscape continues to evolve, hospitals, acute care facilities, clinics, hospices, and long-term care centers need to consider the implications, address logistical concerns, and explore the feasibility of permitting patient access to this treatment.
Whether national policy — particularly with a new presidential administration — will offer some clarity or further complicate regulation of this treatment remains to be seen.
Ms Pre says
👏👏👏👏 Thank you for spreading truth and knowledge!
Ray Otton says
The dispensary, Columbia Care, is looking to expand up to 5 more locations, including somewhere in the middle of the Eastern Shore.
Maybe they should set up shop INSIDE the Royal Farms station in Exmore. That way we could get all our addictive edibles in one place.
Karole Braunstein says
I live in Alexandria, VA (zip code 22310). Which dispensary is close to me? Thanks.
Ray Otton says
There are only four in the state at this time –
https://www.vanorml.org/dispensaries