How to Qualify for Medical Marijuana in Arkansas
To qualify for a registry card to legally purchase medical marijuana in Arkansas, you must meet the following qualifications:
- • Be 18 years of age or older or be a minor patient with a parent/guardian who applies as a caregiver.
- • Be diagnosed with a qualifying medical condition
- • Have the official physician written certification form. You will receive this after your evaluation from The Healing Clinics.
- • Be an Arkansas resident with proof of residency. (AR Driver’s License or AR State ID card).
- • State law prohibits members of the Arkansas National Guard and the United States Military from obtaining a registry ID card.
Qualifying Medical Conditions in Arkansas
• Cancer
• Glaucoma
• Positive status for human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome
• Hepatitis C
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Crohn’s disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Severe arthritis
Fibromyalgia
Alzheimer’s disease
• Cachexia or wasting syndrome
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Intractable pain, which is pain that has not responded to ordinary medications, treatment, or surgical measures for more than six (6) months
• Severe nausea
• Seizures, including, without limitation, those characteristic of epilepsy
• Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including, without limitation, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis
How to request other conditions be added to the list
A petition to add a new qualifying medical condition can be submitted. Petition applications are reviewed and forwarded for a hearing. The department shall approve or deny a petition within one hundred (120) days of its submission. View petition information.
