| Medical Marijuana is a term used to denote the | | | | produce, distribute or dispense, or transport Marijuana |
| administration of Marijuana for “debilitating” | | | | for any use which is not medical. |
| medical conditions such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, | | | | A patient and his caregivers should also remember |
| epilepsy, etc., or severe conditions with symptoms | | | | that Marijuana seized from them by local authorities |
| that can be eased by use of the drug – severe | | | | should immediately be returned once the district |
| pain and nausea, seizures, multiple sclerosis, et al. | | | | attorney proves that the patient is entitled to such |
| There are important clauses and rules in effect since | | | | protection by the amendment. Confidentiality is a |
| the year 2000 that the Colorado Marijuana Clinic | | | | primary concern among many patients, and under not |
| wants every medical marijuana patient to be aware | | | | circumstances will any medical facility, marijuana |
| of, lest the patient or its parent/primary caregiver do | | | | dispensary or the Colorado Marijuana Clinic will reveal |
| something unlawful and punishable. | | | | the patient's names and identity. |
| Before a patient can start the use of cannabis, it is | | | | Once a patient's conditions are not debilitating |
| necessary to ask his physician for three things: | | | | anymore, he is required to return his identification |
| 1. The risks and benefits of medical use of Marijuana, | | | | card. No patient my posses more than two ounces |
| especially in relation to the patient's debilitating | | | | of medical marijuana, and no more than six marijuana |
| condition. | | | | plants, with three or fewer flowering with mature |
| 2. A written documentation signed by the physician | | | | seeds. Use of Marijuana is strictly prohibited in view |
| stating that the patient has a debilitating condition | | | | of the general public or in public places. For patients |
| that calls for the medical administration of Marijuana. | | | | under the age of eighteen, two physicians have to |
| 3. A patient should also never procure marijuana | | | | diagnose debilitating medical conditions. |
| unless he receives the registry identification card. | | | | Notwithstanding all of this, the amendment was to |
| Without procuring the above, no patient should | | | | provide medical patients with reprieve from their |
| self-medicate himself with Marijuana, according to the | | | | conditions, and most clauses can be “bent”, if |
| laws of the state, states the Colorado Marijuana | | | | and only if the patient's medically debilitating |
| Clinic. The section does not provide protection to any | | | | conditions required so. |
| patient or caregiver to acquire, sell, manufacture and | | | | |