North Jersey Rehab and Dr Cyrus Vosough, do provide medical marijuana for chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders and migraines.
New Jersey Health, www.nj.gov, has release some information for patients as described below:
Patients
On March 27, 2018, Governor Murphy announced major reforms outlined in a report in response to Executive Order #6 which directed a comprehensive review of the program. The reforms focus on ways to expand access to marijuana for medical purposes and to reduce barriers that patients face when they are seeking access to medicinal marijuana. Recommendations include a review of regulations and recommendations for statutory action. Five new categories of qualifying debilitating medical conditions (anxiety, migraines, Tourette’s syndrome, chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders, and chronic visceral pain) have been added. The DOH will also be accepting requests from existing ATCs for waivers to allow satellite locations.
The Department reminds patients that recreational marijuana use is a separate issue requiring legislation to implement in this State, and the Department makes no comment on pending or contemplated legislation.
- Do I Qualify?
To become a registered patient with the Medicinal Marijuana Program (MMP), you must:
- Maintain a bona fide relationship with a physician who is registered with the program.
- A bona fide relationship is defined as a relationship in which the physician has ongoing responsibility for the assessment, care, and treatment of a patient’s debilitating medical condition, where:
- The physician-patient relationship has existed for at least one year; or
- The physician has seen and/or assessed the patient for the debilitating medical condition on at least four visits; or
- The physician assumes responsibility for providing management and care of the patient’s debilitating medical condition after conducting a comprehensive medical history and physical examination, including a personal review of the patient’s medical record maintained by other treating physicians reflecting the patient’s reaction and response to conventional medical therapies.
- Be a New Jersey resident.
- Be diagnosed with a qualifying debilitating medical condition by a New Jersey physician registered with the MMP.
Approved debilitating medical conditions include:
- Chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders
- Chronic pain of visceral origin
- Migraine
- Anxiety
- Tourette's Syndrome
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Opioid Use Disorder as an adjunct to Medication Assisted Therapy
- Terminal cancer
- Muscular dystrophy
- Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease
- Terminal illness, if the physician has determined a prognosis of less than 12 months of life.
The following conditions apply, if the patient is resistant to, or intolerant to, conventional therapy:
- Seizure disorder, including epilepsy
- Intractable skeletal muscular spasticity
- Glaucoma
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The following conditions apply, if severe or chronic pain, severe nausea or vomiting, cachexia or wasting syndrome results from the condition or its treatment:
- Positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Cancer