We had to travel 50 miles, one way, to have my ID card recertified.

Getting medical marijuana was a blessing for me and my family. Ever since my car accident, I had a lot of problems with my eyesight. It left me with a lot of scar tissue inside the eye that gave me severe headaches and eyesight that was slowly waning. I was losing light, and there was nothing a doctor could do to help me. The only thing my ophthalmologist and surgeon could tell me was that they could only treat the pain and headaches. They wanted to give me pain pills, but I was afraid of addiction. My ophthalmologist suggested I go to a doctor that helped patients like me get a medical marijuana ID card. Normally, medical marijuana was prescribed for patients with glaucoma, but the headaches and chronic pain qualified me for medical marijuana. I had to go to a pain specialist that was located fifty miles away from my home and was in the middle of the city. It took an hour and a half to get to the office, and another two hours to get home. Once I walked out, I had been certified by the doctor to receive a medical marijuana ID card. I paid the state their fee and received my card two weeks later. I didn’t realize I was going to need to recertify every year. Traveling nearly 100 miles round trip was not something my husband nor I was looking forward to. They made the appointment for a time that put us in the middle of rush hour traffic. Four hours and $150 later, I once again paid the state $50 and got my medical marijuana ID card two weeks later..

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