How To Get A Medical Marijuana Card In MO

Step 1: Determine Your Qualifying Condition

Per Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution, a qualifying medical condition is:

Cancer

Epilepsy

Glaucoma

Intractable migraines unresponsive to other treatment

A chronic medical condition that causes severe, persistent pain or persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to those associated with multiple sclerosis, seizures, Parkinson’s disease, and Tourette’s syndrome

Debilitating psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to, post-traumatic stress order, if diagnosed by a state licensed psychiatrist

Human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome

A chronic medical condition that is normally treated with a prescription medications that could lead to physical or psychological dependence, when a physician determines that medical use of marijuana could be effective in treating that condition and would serve as a safer alternative to the prescription medication

A terminal illness

In the professional judgment of a physician, any other chronic, debilitating or other medical condition, including, but not limited to, hepatitis C,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, Huntington’s disease, autism, neuropathies, sickle cell anemia, agitation of Alzheimer’s disease, cachexia, and wasting syndrome.

Step 2: Obtain A Doctor Recommendation

Ask your physician to write a recommendation that you would electronically send to the state. If your doctor will not do the service, there are many clinics and pop-up doc's doing medical card events (keep an eye out).

You'll then submit your records to the following URL:

https://health.mo.gov/safety/medical-marijuana/how-to-apply-pi.php

You can apply to be a patient, caregiver, or cultivator.

Step 3: Start You Cannabis Treatment!

Dispensaries will be popping up in early 2020.