Ohio Medical Marijuana Program
Obtaining medical marijuana through Ohio’s Medical Marijuana Control Program involves three steps:
1
Visit a certified physician who can confirm that you have one of the medical conditions that qualify for medical marijuana and have the physician create your profile in the Patient & Caregiver Registry.
2
Confirm and complete your registration for the program through the Patient & Caregiver Registry.
3
Purchase medical marijuana from an Ohio dispensary with a certificate of operation from the Board of Pharmacy.
Ohio Medical Marijuana Program FAQs
Below are some common questions about the Ohio Medical Marijuana Program.
A patient’s 90-day recommendation is now divided into two 45-day fill periods based upon the patient’s current, active recommendation. The first fill period consists of days 1-45 of the recommendation and the second fill period consists of days 46-90 of the recommendation. The first fill period begins when the patient receives a recommendation.
In each 45-day fill period, a patient may purchase up to a 45-day supply of medical marijuana, regardless of when purchases are made within the 45-day fill period.
If the 45-day fill period has been exhausted, the patient must wait until the next 45-day fill period to purchase additional medical marijuana.
Conversely, if a patient does not purchase any medical marijuana within a 45-day fill period, the patient is only permitted to purchase a maximum of a 45-day supply of medical marijuana during the next fill period.
To assist dispensary employees and patients in calculating these new fill periods, the Board of Pharmacy has developed a form that automatically calculates the new 45-day fill periods. This form can be accessed at www.medicalmarijuana.ohio.gov/PatientFillCalculator.
Ohio Administrative Code defines the increments in which medical marijuana products can be sold in Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program dispensaries.
A patient and a patient’s caregiver(s) may collectively purchase no less than a whole day unit at a single time. A whole day unit shall equal the following amounts for each authorized form of medical marijuana:
(1) One-tenth of an ounce (two and eighty-three hundredths’ grams) of plant material.
(2) Two-hundred ninety-five milligrams of THC contained in a patch, lotion, cream, or ointment.
(3) One hundred ten milligrams of THC contained in an oil, tincture, capsule, or edible for oral administration.
(4) Five hundred ninety milligrams of THC contained in oil for vaporization.
Thus, no products amounting to less than the whole day unit could be sold at a dispensary. This allows a one-day supply “up to” the amount delineated in the rule for a whole day unit. This interpretation was limited to the 1-day supply of the products; all 2 or more days’ supply amounts needed to be exact multiples of the whole day unit for that product.
The numbers above are based on the numbers included in the Product ID Assignment, not lab results. Patients can purchase products with high CBD content and low THC content in more reasonable quantities and products with THC content that falls in between the day supply increments. THC and CBD target doses continue to be required on product labels. Actual cannabinoid dose must still fall within +/- 10% of target dose.
Learn more on the official Ohio state website here.