Doctors and patients are signing up to get certified for Mississippi’s new medical marijuana program.Maryland-based Green Health Docs is planning to set up clinics across the state as the program takes shape.”Right now, we have an office in Biloxi, and we also have an office in Jackson,” said Nicole Mongelli, the company’s clinical operations manager. “We see patients one day a week at each location. Right now, we’re getting pre-registration out of the way. Just collecting medical documentation and creating relationships with our patients.”Only two dozen medical conditions are covered under Mississippi’s program, including cancer, HIV, autism and glaucoma.”The physicians and practitioners who are giving certifications need to be very careful with certain groups. The largest group that I’m concerned about are women of childbearing age,” said Dr. Geri Weiland, president of the Mississippi State Medical Association. “We know from the illegal use, that marijuana causes significant problems to the unborn child. It has tremendous side effects.”Weiland said practitioners also should think twice before they help people who work in the medical field or commercial truck drivers get a medical cannabis card.”I don’t know that we want to have commercial licensed drivers, people in medicine, physicians, certain other folks having a medical cannabis certification and using the product if they’re going to be in a situation where are the health and welfare and the public is in their hands,” Wieland said.The Mississippi State Department of Health said about a dozen patients have been approved for the medical cannabis card. The product won’t be available until late this year.
Doctors and patients are signing up to get certified for Mississippi’s new medical marijuana program.
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Maryland-based Green Health Docs is planning to set up clinics across the state as the program takes shape.
“Right now, we have an office in Biloxi, and we also have an office in Jackson,” said Nicole Mongelli, the company’s clinical operations manager. “We see patients one day a week at each location. Right now, we’re getting pre-registration out of the way. Just collecting medical documentation and creating relationships with our patients.”
Only two dozen medical conditions are covered under Mississippi’s program, including cancer, HIV, autism and glaucoma.
“The physicians and practitioners who are giving certifications need to be very careful with certain groups. The largest group that I’m concerned about are women of childbearing age,” said Dr. Geri Weiland, president of the Mississippi State Medical Association. “We know from the illegal use, that marijuana causes significant problems to the unborn child. It has tremendous side effects.”
Weiland said practitioners also should think twice before they help people who work in the medical field or commercial truck drivers get a medical cannabis card.
“I don’t know that we want to have commercial licensed drivers, people in medicine, physicians, certain other folks having a medical cannabis certification and using the product if they’re going to be in a situation where are the health and welfare and the public is in their hands,” Wieland said.
The Mississippi State Department of Health said about a dozen patients have been approved for the medical cannabis card. The product won’t be available until late this year.
