Patients

Do I Qualify?

To become a registered patient with the Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP), you must:

• Maintain a bona fide relationship with a physician who is registered with the program.
  A bona fide relationship is defined as a relationship in which the physician has ongoing responsibility for the assessment, care, and treatment of a patient’s debilitating medical condition, where:
• The physician-patient relationship has existed for at least one year; or
• The physician has seen and/or assessed the patient for the debilitating medical condition on at least four visits; or
• The physician assumes responsibility for providing management and care of the patient’s debilitating medical condition after conducting a comprehensive medical history and physical examination, including a personal review of the patient’s medical record maintained by other treating physicians reflecting the patient’s reaction and response to conventional medical therapies.
• Be a New Jersey resident.
• Be diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition by a New Jersey physician registered with the MMP.

Approved debilitating medical conditions include:

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Multiple sclerosis
• Terminal cancer
• Muscular dystrophy
• Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease
• Terminal illness, if the physician has determined a prognosis of less than 12 months of life.

The following conditions apply, if the patient is resistant to, or intolerant to, conventional therapy:

• Seizure disorder, including epilepsy
• Intractable skeletal muscular spasticity
• Glaucoma
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The following conditions apply, if severe or chronic pain, severe nausea or vomiting, cachexia or wasting syndrome results from the condition or its treatment:

• Positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
• Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Cancer