Becoming a Patient in Pennsylvania

Qualifying Conditions

Qualifying serious medical conditions for residents of Pennsylvania include:

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;
• Anxiety disorders;
• Autism;
• Cancer, including remission therapy;
• Crohn’s disease;
• Damage to the nervous tissue of the central nervous system (brain-spinal cord) with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, and other associated neuropathies;
• Dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders;
• Epilepsy;
• Glaucoma;
• HIV / AIDS;
• Huntington’s disease;
• Inflammatory bowel disease;
• Intractable seizures;
• Multiple sclerosis;
• Neurodegenerative diseases;
• Neuropathies;
• Opioid use disorder for which conventional therapeutic interventions are contraindicated or ineffective, or for which adjunctive therapy is indicated in combination with primary therapeutic interventions;
• Parkinson’s disease;
• Post-traumatic stress disorder;
• Severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe chronic or intractable pain;
• Sickle cell anemia;
• Terminal illness;
• and Tourette syndrome.

Regulatory Requirements

Obtaining a Pennsylvania medical marijuana ID card requires the following steps:

REGISTER ONLINE

• Visit the Patient and Caregiver Registry at: medicalmarijuana.pa.gov and create a patient profile
• Make sure that all of your information matches your state-issued ID exactly.
• Type in all CAPS
• Do not use spaces or dashes between identification numbers
• Do not use any punctuation in your address

GET CERTIFIED BY A PHYSICIAN

• Visit a physician who is registered with the PA medical marijuana program
• Meet with the physician who will certify that you suffer from a qualifying serious medical condition

MAKE PAYMENT

• Return to the Patient and Caregiver Registry at: medicalmarijuana.pa.gov and pay a $50 fee for your medical marijuana ID card. You must wait for you medical marijuana ID card to arrive at home before you can make a purchase in our dispensaries