Oregon Issues Cannabis Cards to Non-Residents

In the state of Oregon over the years, hundreds – even thousands – of out-of-state residents from such states as Idaho, Wisconsin, Texas, Wyoming, Washington and other states who don’t allow the use of medical marijuana, have been making the trip to Oregon to obtain medical marijuana prescriptions.

But how can this be, you may ask? Under Oregon law, it is the only state that allows non-residents to obtain a medical marijuana card. This causes hundreds of marijuana users to flock to the Beaver State to obtain prescriptions for marijuana.

Obviously, they return to their home state, but they still have to make the annual trip, to renew it each year. While this protects them when in Oregon, once they return home to, say Texas, they are vulnerable to prosecution.

Many out-of-state Oregon medical marijuana cardholders don’t care though. They are just glad to have a legal prescription for marijuana, showing that it is, in fact, legal somewhere.

“To be able to have at least one state say, ‘Yes, we accept that you are a patient,’ means so much to me,” Gary Storck, a Wisconsin resident, was quoted. “It was worth the trip to be recognized as a patient. I have been fighting my whole entire adult life for my medicine. My home state, where I was born, won’t recognize that.” Storck has glaucoma and other debilitating conditions.

Source: McMinnville News Register