natureboy!
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I sure wouldn't turn down a provisional status , till I get a card !
Illinois medical marijuana card wait time
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There's definitely something to it, it's the law. Although that's not 100% what the law says.
The Emergency Rules have to be submitted by the 1st, implementation of the rules has no deadline.
Provisional access is only for qualifying conditions who applied online. You get 90 days with a 90 day extension.
Opioids get instant access but it's not called provisional access. It only lasts for 90 days.
Eventually opioids and qualifying conditions MAY share the same form, which sounds like everyone will be applying at dispensaries eventually.
I hope the IDPH worker who told someone here that provisional won't happen until after the first of the year was not telling the truth or someone misunderstood 1sts. That's what has me depressed and angry. Opioids were always said to be after the first of the year, they take more work. Provisional should be very simple to flip a switch and have letters granting access being emailed. If they are delaying that to after the new year they're probably delaying it to January 14th with the regime change, continuing the delay for the sake of delay.
It will, it's a matter of when.
natureboy!
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maybe a Christmas Miracle will show
https://www.midwestcompassion.org/2018/06/06/the-mcpp-expands-to-include-the-opioid-alternative-pilot-program/
Reading the law gives me hope.
Reading the replies from IDPH here makes me think it will be delayed until those people are gone.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/100/PDF/100-1114.pdf
"(s-5) "Provisional registration" means a document issued by the Department of Public Health to a qualifying patient who has submitted: (1) an online application and paid a fee to participate in Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program pending approval or denial of the patient's application; or (2) a completed application for terminal illness."
By all rights December 1st emergency rules are submitted, and go into effect as emergency rules do. They should start sending out provisional access emails December 3rd, and the way computers work that shouldn't take long.
Hopefully the Grinch happy making sick people wait grows a heart that day.
I told a mmj friend in PA the way IL works they'll have someone on an old manual typewriter typing out 5 letters a day licking stamps.
natureboy!
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I have been off work today , and doing a little research on the subject , could happen ! lets hope its at least an electric typewriter and one of those old ceramic " wet wheel" for the stamps...
Aleez
Member
3c dispensary in Joliet is awesome. That’s where I signed up. My friend goes there. Pretty decent hours
FlYingIllini
Member
I’m 9/19 for the application being accepted. Let me know what you hear! Thanks and good luck.
chicagoguy67
Member
Update: Card arrived today 11/28 79 days
So I found out there are 3 IDPH employees that if you piss them off or say the wrong thing they automatically put you in the bottom of the pile. We need to band together and let them know it won’t stand. They are forcing sick people to suffer for their own egos. I will submit their names in here if I am allowed to. Please someone let me know if I can or what I can say.
How did you find that out? No way is that true, people would be waiting over 90 days if they got put on the bottom
natureboy!
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hahaaaa...now we know what the mysterious slow down is !!!!!
A patient advocate told me that there have been reports against these 3 people for some time. It’s good to know some people really are fighting for us. But if there’s no repercussions for these people things will never change.
Welp, I’m done calling ha
natureboy!
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Hahaaaa...too late ! they got a "post-it" by the phone , with your name on it !! / kidding
natureboy!
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Congrats !
The opioid program is more complex overall, I agree, but the online verificiation system for both appears like it will be very similar -- and might turn out to be one-and-the-same website. Both the opiod program and the provisional access rules require the dispensary to confirm using an IDPH website the validity of any customer wishing to purchase while they have a pending application, opioid or qualifying condition. So while there's more backend to the opioid program (such as tracking the duration of doctor recommendations, as well as potential doctor-imposed quantity limitations), there's a lot of overlap too. Hence why I predict both will be available on the same date.