If you are wondering "how can I get a medical marijuana card in Washington?", you have come to the right place. We specialize in the health assessment and authorization of Medical Marijuana. Doctors are often reluctant to recommend cannabis as a treatment for many major health conditions. However, we understand the depth of healing that can come through the properties of the cannabis plant, inlcluding: pain relief, anti-inflammatory, muscle-relaxation, appetite-inducing, anti-nausea, anti-cancer, anti-siezure, and many more. 

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What are some of the benefits of Medical Cannabis ?

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The helpful and healing benefits of this plant are so far reaching that it is challenging to list them all. With that said, however, here is a brief description of some of its remarkable properties that research has found to date. 

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•  Relief of chronic pain

• Relaxation of muscle spasms    

• Improves lung capacity

• Promotes restful sleep

• Helps to maintain healthy body composition

• Regulates and prevent diabetes

• Fights cancer

• Helps treat depression

• Regulates seizures

• Treatment for glaucoma

• Alleviates anxiety

• Slows development of Alzheimer’s disease

• Helps with PTSD symptoms

• Reduces brain inflammation in concussion or other head trauma

• Helps provide relief to individuals with multiple sclerosis

• Reduces side effects linked to hepatitis C and increases the effectiveness of treatment

• Treats inflammatory bowel diseases

• Helps with tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease

• Can help with alcohol and tobacco addiction     

                                                                                                              Is Medical Marijuana Right For Me?

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Qualifying conditions for medical marijuana in Washington State include:

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• Intractable Pain

• Cancer

• HIV

• Multiple Sclerosis

• Epilepsy or other seizure disorder

• Glaucoma

• Crohn's Disease

• Hepatitis C 

• Chronic renal failure requiring hemodialysis.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Traumatic brain injury.

• Diseases, including anorexia, which result in nausea, vomiting, wasting, appetite loss, cramping, seizures, muscle spasms, or spasticity, when these symptoms are unrelieved by standard treatments or medications

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Why Is It Important to Obtain A Medical Marijuana Card if it is legal to use under WA Recreational laws?

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• To maintain or obtain employment

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•  The ability to grow your own plants (free of pesticides,    herbicides, mold, and toxic additives, up to 15 plants)

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• Access to higher medical potencies from cannabis stores

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• Save money with eliminated State Taxes, and other medical discounts from stores. 

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• Higher possession limits than with recreational use

 

 

How Safe is Medical Cannabis?

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According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), "From 1999 to 2017, almost 218,000 people died in the United States from overdoses related to prescription opioids. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids were five times higher in 2017 than in 1999."   (CDC.gov)

 

This is what has been termed the "opioid epidemic" in America. This is over 12,000 deaths per year related to chronic pain prescriptions. Imagine FOUR September 11 terrorist attacks every year for the past 20 years. This level of human destruction is truly unthinkable. Even when properly used and prescribed, opioids have side side effects that range from constipation & addiction to personality changes & death. 

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In contrast, cannabis use for chronic pain poses almost no risk of death (except for driving or other unsafe actions while under the influence). And the side effects do not interfere with quality of life in a drastic way as do prescription opioids. 

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Some negative effects that have been reported from Cannabis use include:

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• Chronic cough & and potential respiratory infections.

• Mental and cognitive issues, including problems with learning and memory, hallucinations, anxiety, panic attacks and psychosis, especially in youth.

• Heavy & early use in teens has been shown to cause some problems with brain development.

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Most of these effects are associated with recreational use of high THC marijuana. Responsible medical cannabis use in as low a doses as is effective usually produces very few unwanted side-effects. 

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If you are ready to apply for your Washington medical cannabis card, click the schedule now button below. 

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