Status
Operational
Law Signed:
2004
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- Admittance into hospice care in accordance with rules adopted by the department
- Cachexia or wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Central nervous system disorder resulting in chronic, painful spasticity or muscle spasms
- Crohn’s disease
- Epilepsy or an intractable seizure disorder
- Glaucoma
- HIV/AIDS
- Intractable nausea or vomiting
- Painful peripheral neuropathy
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Severe chronic pain that is persistent pain of severe intensity that significantly interferes with daily activities as documented by the patient’s treating physician
PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS
A registered cardholder who has named a provider may possess up to one ounce of usable marijuana. A registered cardholder who has not named a provider may possess up to 4 mature plants, 4 seedlings, and the amount of usable marijuana allowed by the department by rule. If two or more registered cardholders share a residence and have not named providers, the cardholders may have a maximum of 8 mature plants, 8 seedlings, and the amount of usable marijuana allowed by the department by rule.
HOME CULTIVATION
Yes. See above.
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES ALLOWED
Yes. Passage of Initiative I-182 permits licensed medical marijuana providers to serve more than three patients at one time.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATUTES
- Montana Medical Marijuana Act, Mont. Code Ann. §§ 50-46-1 to 50-46-2 (2007)
CAREGIVERS
Yes, but caregivers may provide for no more than two patients at one time (or three, if the caregiver is also a patient).
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
- 26,886
- Source: Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services Cannabis Control Division, as of September 2022
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR QUALIFYING PATIENTS
- Yes
- Details
RECIPROCITY
No