What is the application process?
Non-terminal conditions:
The practice is a medical marijuana enrollment program. Once a person has met medical eligibility based any of the accepted medical conditions by the state to enter the medical marijuana program then the practice will work with each individual patient to ensure that all state and medical documentation has been uploaded for review by the NJ state medical marijuana program.
A digital photo is also required by the medical marijuana program; the photo which can be taken by our office staff or by family member/friend at home. If a photo of a patient is taken outside of the doctor’s office, then the patient must have their photo taken either sitting or standing up against a neutral background (i.e., the wall behind the patient must be either plain white or beige), the patient must be facing toward the camera (e.g., side profile pictures are not accepted by the state), and the patient must not be wearing any hats, head coverings or glasses as per NJ state rules. The photo is a requirement of the state as the photo will be placed on the medical marijuana card; the medical marijuana card will look like a driver’s license. Photos on driver’s licenses or on state issued identification cards cannot be used for the photo that is required for the medical marijuana card.
Once the state has received all required documentation, including a photo of the patient applying for a medical marijuana card, the state will review the application for a medical marijuana card. Provided all state required documentation is appropriate including an appropriate photo, an approval will be issued by the state of New Jersey. Approval times may vary tremendously; the office will inform each individual applicant of the expected times of approval.
Once the application has been approved by the state, the doctor’s office will be notified of the approval. The office staff will then subsequently notify the patient of the state’s approval for a medical marijuana card and that the medical marijuana card will be mailed out the patient by the state.
The medical marijuana card is mailed to the patient by the New Jersey Department of Health from the state capital, Trenton, NJ. The card is mailed by the state using U.S. postal services and may take 3-7 business days to receive to the home address provided to the state by the patient. The card will arrive to a patient’s regular mailbox and will be inside a plain white envelope which has the Department of Health on the front of the envelope.
Terminal cancer/terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 12 months of life:
If a patient is deemed to have a terminal cancer/condition, the patient will be eligible to have the application process expedited by the state. In these circumstances, the patient will have the required documents reviewed by state quickly and most often will receive an approval from the state for the medical marijuana card within 48-72 hours. Once the card is approved, the card will be sent with overnight mail to the patient’s home by the state.
All required medical information as requested by the doctor’s office and full payment for medical services rendered for the medical marijuana registration process inclusive of the required NJ state fee for the medical marijuana card must be received by the office prior to the mailing of the medical marijuana card. Cards will not be mailed until all medical documentation and full payment has been made to the office.