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Arizona Medical Marijuana Cards

Do I Qualify for a Arizona Medical Marijuana Registry ID card?

The first question a potential medical marijuana patient must answer is do I qualify for a medical marijuana card. Please review the list of qualifying medical conditions as laid out by the department of Public Health and Environment below.

  • Severe or Chronic Pain
  • Cancer
  • Glaucoma
  • HIV or AIDS positive OR A medical condition or treatment that produces, for this patient, one or more of the following and which, in the physician’s professional opinion, may be alleviated by the medical use of marijuana.
  • Cachexia
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures (including those characteristic of epilepsy)
  • Muscle spasticity or spasms (related to some of the above conditions.)
  • Persistent muscle spasms (including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis)

Our staff can set you an appointment with reliable, compassionate and competent doctors to assist you in all of your Arizona Medical Marijuana Registry needs.

At AZ Medicinal Network, we are prepared to walk and talk you through the process of getting registered with the Arizona Medical Marijuana Registry from start to finish. We will set an appointment for you to get the written physician recommendation needed for your state issued medical marijuana ID card in one short visit.

Call or email our highly trained and highly motivated representatives today!

Doctor Appointments

Our medical marijuana directors know which doctors specialize in medicinal marijuana and what parts of the state they serve. At AZMN our physicians specialize in recommending marijuana as medicine and are highly educated about its medical benefits and uses.

Note: Doctors may recommend marijuana but they may not prescribe medical marijuana. Please see the information listed below regarding what doctors may or may not do under state and federal medical marijuana laws.

Doctors Can:

  • Discuss, fully and candidly, the risks and benefits of medical marijuana with patients.
  • Recommend, in accordance with their medical judgment, marijuana for patient use.
  • Record in their patients charts discussions about and recommendations of medical marijuana.
  • Sign a government form or otherwise inform state or local officials that they have recommended medical marijuana for particular patients.
  • Testify in court or through written declaration about recommending medical marijuana for a certain patient.
  • Educate themselves about the medical benefits of marijuana, its various clinical applications and different routes of ingestion.

Doctors Cannot:

  • Prescribe medical marijuana. This includes writing a recommendation on a Rx form.
  • Assist patients in obtaining marijuana. This includes providing information to patients about dispensaries, compassion clubs, or how to grow or otherwise acquire marijuana.
  • Cultivate or possess marijuana for patient use.
  • Physically assist patients in using marijuana.
  • Recommend marijuana without a justifiable medical cause.

Set up an appointment with a physician specializing in MMJ today!

Medical Marijuana Qualifying Conditions

Doctors that recommend medical marijuana are difficult to locate and in high demand these days. Most physicians in Arizona are still not familiar with the benefits of medical marijuana and do not have any experience in treating patients with cannabis as an alternative medicine. Each physician that participates has over 2 decades of experience in their prospective fields and they all specialize in the uses and benefits of medical marijuana. Here is a list of some of the qualifying conditions for medical marijuana in Arizona.

Severe Chronic Pain

Chronic or severe pain can often be the result of conditions or treatments of conditions, such as cancer treatment through chemotherapy or a structural spine issues. Either condition can be exhausting and debilitating and even lead to severe depression. Through medical Cannabis in Arizona, patients suffering from chronic pain have shown in multiple Arizona medical marijuana doctor studies to reduce episodes of depression or even sometimes completely alleviate pain symptoms without other drugs. While drugs from pharmaceutical companies are available to fight and manage pain and depression, they can also be highly addictive and cause side effects that are just as unpleasant such as chronic nausea.

Severe Chronic Nausea

Many illnesses can cause chronic or severe nausea and the condition can lead a patient to exhaustion and or malnourishment. Illnesses such as Leukemia and cancer that are required to go through chemotherapy can experience prolonged and extreme nausea. Some patients get to the point of being unable to eat or hold down any food. Arizona medical marijuana doctors and patients have found that using the drug as part of a prescribed regimen greatly reduces symptoms of nausea and often stimulates the appetite. The inhaled use of marijuana has been shown to be more effective and safer treatments than traditional medicines can provide.

Cachexia- Arizona Marijuana

Serious Wasting syndrome, cachexia generally results in nutritional deficiencies caused by other underlying issues Marijuana has the potential to be a very simple answer to a complex problem for cachexia patients experiencing fatigue, weakness, lowered appetite or loss of appetite or eventually muscle atrophy.

Many conditions may lead to cachexia such as autoimmune diseases or perhaps cancer can lead patients to the symptoms of cachexia. Medical marijuana has a proven appetite stimulation effect, and for patients experiencing complete lack of appetite.

Cannabis can be effective in reducing the effects of wasting patients who can’t eat. Once a body becomes malnourished electrolyte imbalances and even death can occur.

Glaucoma – Arizona Marijuana Doctors

Glaucoma is often caused by increased eye pressure. This can result in damages to the optic nerve and can cause might possibly lead to blindness. For glaucoma patients in AZ, medical marijuana Glaucoma patients and others throughout the state, marijuana use to be an effective alternative to surgery or at least delay the surgery. Medical marijuana use reduces pressure immediately in the eyes and the
effects can last up to four or five hours. While medical cannabis will have different degrees of effect in glaucoma patients, supplementing marijuana to a treatment program could allow patients a secondary source of relief and possibly reduce the odds for surgery.

Cancer – Arizona Marijuana Cards

Arizona medical marijuana patients that suffer from Cancer use cannabis as an effective tool in managing episodes of chronic nausea.

A very common side effect of patients with cancer can be the nausea associated with chemotherapy treatments where patients can’t keep their medication down.

Cannabis patients report that inhalation of the cannabinoid drug reverses the nausea effects caused by chemo treatment, as well as easing anxiety and pain related to treatment. Medical cannabis has also proven to stimulate appetite for cancer patients who have been unable to eat regularly. The chronic pain associated with Chemotherapy can also be relieved through marijuana usage.

Epilepsy – Arizona Medical Marijuana Cards

Epilepsy is known as a neurological condition that often appears in the form of seizures and can affect the nervous system. Although seizures can also be caused by an injury to the brain or through genetic inheritance, epilepsy related seizures generally have no known cause. Marijuana patients may be able to reduce of control the amount of regularity of these seizures through the use of cannabis. These patients often report very few of side effects generally experienced by the use of traditional medicine. Patients who use medical marijuana for epileptic seizures report fewer instances of seizures with regular use. Cannabis can produce a relaxing and calming effect on the central nervous system of the body, the nervous system is less likely to produce epileptic seizures.