Washington's Medical Marijuana Patient Database Launches

July 8, 2016

The Cannabis Patient Protection Act came into full effect Friday, July 1, and fireworks were certainly not the only thing being lit on the Plateau over the Independence Day weekend.

But the final enactment of the Cannabis Patient Protection Act was not as smooth as some were hoping for.

On June 28, the Washington state Department of Health announced it was having software issues with the Medical Marijuana Authorization Database and that it may not be ready by July 1.

The database is integral to the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, also known as Senate Bill 5052, because medical patients can only receive benefits from the bill if they are registered in the database and have their recognition card.

The DOH announced in the early hours of July 1 that the database was operational.

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