Ohio has relaxed on its medical marijuana limits after complaints from patients piled up over the restrictions that prevent them from buying the drug when they need it.

While patients will still be limited to a “90-day supply” of medical marijuana, the restrictions that cut off many patients before they came close to reaching that amount will be eliminated Friday per a new Ohio Board of Pharmacy policy.

Patients were noticing that days which they didn’t buy any product were subtracted from their 90-day total. So if a patient made his first purchase on day 30 of their recommendation, he could only buy 60 days worth of marijuana products.

Patients additionally had to wait for purchases to “fall off” after 90 days before they could buy more. The patient portal often showed an inaccurate number of remaining days.

Starting today patients can now buy 45 days worth of product at any point in a 45-day period. Unpurchased “days” won’t carry over to the next period, but patients won’t lose them either.

“We hope this will provide greater transparency for patients, caregivers and dispensary employees while still taking steps to ensure patients do not possess more than 90-day supply as stipulated in the Ohio Revised Code,” board spokesman Cameron McNamee said this week in an e-mail to Cincinnati.com.

More than 88,000 patients have registered for a medical marijuana card in Ohio since December 2018.


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