Patients Concerns and Recommendation for Legislative and Bureaucratic Improvements to the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program
Prices are very expensive, far beyond standard medications.
Reduce or eliminate business rules and regulations that elevate prices for patients.
Limits on medical professionals to treat with marijuana.
Permit all physicians to make recommendations.
Protect nurse's medical licenses, especially home care nurses.
Eliminate hospital policies that preclude Medical Marijuana Patients' use.
Bedridden homebound patients cannot physically get to a doctor for a recommendation.
OPN recommends a change in the law regarding Doctor's in-person only visit.
Eliminate policies and/or protect hospitals.
Single parents with young children are excluded from bringing a child with them to a dispensary and creates a burden on a parent to obtain childcare or leave them unattended.
Permit dependent children to accompany their parent to a dispensary.
Allow for call ahead ordering with a drive-thru at dispensaries.
Permit a home delivery option.
Limited access to a number of dispensaries
Expand the number of dispensaries.
Restrictions on forms of use
Permit use by smoking, nasal sprays inhalers, and suppositories.
Driving restrictions effectively make all patients lawbreakers.
Conduct a real evaluation of MMJ patients driving abilities.
Use anonymized patient driver records in comparison to non-patients.
Limited product information such as other cannabinoids and terpenes, strain names are almost meaningless.
Expand testing information to include more accurate information on cannabinoids and terpenes.
Persistent denial of other conditions by petitions to Medical Board
Reconsider prior petitions for example Opioid Use Disorder, Autism
Limited patient input to Bureaucratic Boards and Agencies
Conduct periodic virtual town halls.
Act on patient surveys
Limited Physicians awareness of Rules
For example, it took months and months for Medical Board to make Physicians aware of Schedule II status impact opioid and other prescription medications.
Board of Pharmacy's use of digital technology only creates a “Digital Divide”.
Permit use of the Postal system to register patients and obtain their card.
