Patient registration cards within the Hawai’i Department of Health’s medical marijuana program are now being issued quicker.
The department said Wednesday that the quicker processing is result of a new online registry, reducing the wait to three to five business days from the six to eight weeks it took when there was a patient backlog in 2015.
“Without compromising the integrity of our review process or the safety of Hawai’i’s people, we brought everything up to speed and improved our processing time so that patients can receive their registration cards faster,” said Scottina Ruis, medical marijuana registry program coordinator for the DOH.
According to Ruis, the new online registry system has benefits outside the wait time, like having the physician certify patients electronically and having registration cards sent directly to patients. [Read more at Big Island Now]
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