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How to Get Medical Marijuana Legally in Colorado

Using medical marijuana legally in Colorado can mean navigating a bureaucratic maze of laws, regulations, and best practices for avoiding legal trouble. Colorado's medical marijuana law specifies who qualifies to use medical marijuana, but is vague (perhaps intentionally so) on acceptable methods of acquiring medical marijuana in Colorado. To date, there are only three legal ways to acquire and use marijuana in Colorado: Grow it, name a caregiver, or work with a full-service dispensary such as Pain Management of Colorado.

Getting Medical Marijuana from a Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Using a medical marijuana dispensary is often the simplest and most cost-effective option for patients, particularly those new to using medical marijuana. A full-service dispensary can often help the patient not only acquire their medicine, but also become a registered medical marijuana user (if the patient qualifies) and choose a medical marijuana doctor and medical marijuana caregiver. Dispensaries like Pain Management of Colorado are managed by professionals familiar with Colorado's medical marijuana laws and regulations, and can help patients educate themselves on safe and legal medical marijuana use.

Drawbacks are few, but include geographic locations that may be inconvenient particularly for severely disabled patients, as well as the lack of a law specifically permitting such dispensaries and cooperatives to do business. No law prohibits the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries.

Growing Your Medical Marijuana in Colorado

If you're interested in growing your own medical marijuana, consider consulting an attorney or a medical marijuana specialist about the best practices for doing so. Colorado law is unclear on where you can grow legal medical marijuana, where you can buy your seeds, whether or not a landlord may evict you for growing medical marijuana legally, and even whether or not you can be fired from your job for growing medical marijuana.

In addition, a novice grower may not be capable of producing medical-grade marijuana with their first crop. Like any plant, marijuana must be grown with care and skill. However, remember that you are legally allowed to possess only up to two ounces of usable marijuana.

Primary Medical Marijuana Caregivers

A medical marijuana caregiver is a person, other than the patient and the patient's physician, who is eighteen years of age or older and has significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient who has a debilitating medical condition. Any medical marijuana patient may name a primary caregiver in their medical marijuana registry application or by informing the state registry in writing of their primary caregiver's name and address at any time while the patient holds a medical marijuana registry card. This caregiver is then authorized on the patient's behalf to grow, possess, and distribute marijuana for that patient's use only, and is subject to the same limitations as the patient would be if choosing to grow their own medicine.

There is no limit at this time as to how many patients one caregiver may be responsible for, so long as the requirements to become a caregiver are met in each case. However, a hearing will be held on July 20, 2009, in order to consider changing the rules to limit caregivers to five patients. Most medical marijuana advocates oppose this change.

Disclaimer:This text is for informative purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice from a physician. Always consult your doctor before making any decision on the treatment of a medical condition.

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