As the deadline approaches for marijuana growers to submit applications to attain one of five licenses to supply the state of New York the new cannabis industry in New York has picked up the support of many influential hospitals.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that while the State Health Department was not ready to show the list of applicants, various hospitals have come forward to announce that they have established partnerships that will let them prescribe medical marijuana to their patients if they are granted a license.
One of the facilities, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, shows that they have partnered up with Silverpeak Apothecary; a medical marijuana company located in Colorado, to create a new company called, Silverpeak NY. The purpose of this partnership, according to the hospital’s chief executive, Michael Dowling, is to make sure their patients have access to medicinal marijuana.
Dowling quoted, North Shore-L.I.J. “recognizes the importance of our patients having access to every legal option to manage the symptoms of their illness, if there is clinical evidence to support marijuana’s use for the condition.”
Multiple major medical organizations announced that they are planning to provide medical marijuana as part of their health services. The University of Rochester Medical Center and Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Health System told the NY Times that they were currently negotiating with companies that have applied for a license in order to supply medical marijuana to their facilities assuming these facilities are granted approval.
Although the organization did not get into details, the NY Times suggests that The Greater New York Hospital Association has also filed an application hoping to be granted the right to be apart of the state’s medical cannabis program.
Only five producers, which possibly can be announced this month, will be awarded the opportunity to cultivate and sell medical marijuana in the state of New York. These particular five companies will be granted permission to open four dispensaries across New York, with medical marijuana being accessible to patients by the start of 2016.
Unluckily, while there is a great excitement and energy surrounding the business side of this program, the brass tacks of medical marijuana in NY only permit patients who are suffering from only 10 qualified conditions to granted to access to medical marijuana. Majority of supporters, however, agree that while the program is not picture perfect, they feel confident that the approved list of conditions and diseases will most likely expand once the program has time to develop.
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Good news for the New York patients. With marijuana, various diseases can be cured like cancer, nausea, chronic pain etc. Thanks for sharing this wonderful update.