After your physician at The Healing Clinics completes your evaluation (usually completed the same day as you submit your intake form), you will be given a form that must be sent to the Arkansas Department of Health. Processing can take up to 14 days. Once processing is completed, you can download a digital version of your Arkansas Medical Marijuana Participant card. 

The following are required when submitting your application:

• • The patient registry application form.
• • The completed Physician Written Certification.
• • Photocopy of the front of your Arkansas-issued driver’s license or state ID on a full sheet of paper.
• The non-refundable application fees.

Your registry identification card will be valid for up to one year from the date it is issued.  Your card may be issued for less than one year if designated by your physician.   Visiting patient cards are issued for 90 days.

You can renew your card up to 60 days prior to your card’s expiration date. Be sure to also renew your evaluation with The Healing Clinics.

You need the same documents for new applications and renewals:

• • The patient registry application form.
• • A new Physician Written Certification.  Your previous certification cannot be used.
• • Photocopy of the front of your Arkansas-issued driver’s license or state ID on a full sheet of paper.
• • The non-refundable application fees.

Yes. The information received and records kept by the Arkansas Department of Health Medical Marijuana Section are subject to all applicable federal privacy laws, are confidential, are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, and are not subject to disclosure to any individual or public or private entity, except as necessary for authorized employees of the department to perform official duties for the medical marijuana program. Law enforcement will have the ability to confirm only the validity of an ID card.

No. Using medical cannabis is prohibited in a school bus, on the grounds of any preschool or primary or secondary school, in any correctional facility, in any motor vehicle, in a private residence used at any time to provide licensed childcare or other similar social service care on the premises and in any public place where an individual could reasonably be expected to be observed by others. A public place includes all parts of buildings owned in a whole or in part, or leased, by the state or local unit of government. A public place does not include a private residence unless the private residence is used to provide licensed childcare, foster care, or other similar social service care on the premises. Using medical marijuana is also prohibited in a health care facility or any other place where smoking is prohibited by the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2006 and knowingly in close physical proximity to anyone under the age of 18.

• • 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

A designated caregiver is a person who is selected by a qualifying patient as the person authorized, on the qualifying patient’s behalf, to possess, obtain from a certified medical marijuana dispensary, dispense, and assist in the administration of medical marijuana. Caregivers must apply for a registry card. A designated caregiver is issued a medical marijuana registry identification card that allows him/her to possess up to 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana on behalf of their patient. It is not legal for caregivers to consume, by any means, medical marijuana that has been dispensed on behalf of a registered qualifying patient.  A criminal background check is required for most caregiver applicants.  Parents applying to be caregivers for their own children do not have complete a criminal background check.