Overview of the Massachusetts Medical Process

After your virtual visit today, the medical component of your card (the doctor “certification”) part is complete. This certification is valid for 365 days.

​Massachusetts also requires that you complete a brief online application so that they can mail you a state-sponsored plastic license, which gives you access to MA dispensaries (and others that offer reciprocity) for 365 days. Both of these two parts of the MA license (the doctor visit and the state registration) must be renewed annually.

Next Steps for Your Registration
1.  Visit the new CCC patient gateway:  https://patient.massciportal.com
  • 1a. (New Patients) Select the first box that indicates you are a "newly certified patient and would like to create an account and register for the Medical Use of Marijuana Online Program for the first time" 
  • 1a. (Renewing Patients) If this is your first entry into the new system, click the third box down, which indicates that you’re a renewing patient, but new to this system….  where appropriate, then click the link that allows you to “Claim Account” 
  • A tutorial of how to claim your account:   https://mass-cannabis-control.com/masscip-tutorials/
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​​2.  Confirm Registration Details 
  • 2a. ​(New Patients) Complete the state registration, following the online instructions (your PIN code will be emailed to you by CED Clinic after your appointment 
  • 2a. (Renewing Patients) After claiming your account, log in to complete a brief review of your Cannabis Control Commission (state) application profile, so that the state can reissue you a plastic license for this year.  
  • 2b. Once this is done, expect to receive an email from “CNBCommission (CCC)” informing you that "You have successfully completed your registration”.

3. After you receive confirmation that the application has been approved, you may log back into the Patient Portal, using your username and password (this link: https://patient.massciportal.com ) to print a paper card (if you need it).
  • This paper-printed card can be used at all of the dispensaries until the plastic license arrives in the mail. If you have a card from last year that is still valid, the completion of the above steps should automatically prompt a new card to be mailed by the state.​

Go to a Dispensary Now

To visit a dispensary now, bring a government-issued ID and your printed temporary card. This card is valid for 14 days. You must complete the registration with the CCC to receive your year-long, plastic card. 

Step-by-Step Guides

These are the most helpful videos for new and renewing patients who need to claim or update their account or resize an image. If you'd like printable, more detailed instructions, visit our help page

Done With Registration... Now What?

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Once you complete the above registration step, your application goes into a queue until the state approves it and mails you a plastic license (in an unmarked envelope). Typically this process takes less than 10 days, following the completion of the state registration step.
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 If you want to speed up the pace of approval, you can reach out to Matthew Giancola at [email protected]. He works with the state and can sometimes help to speed up the processing.

It would help to include in your email:   
​1) Your Name        2) Your Patient ID number (Pxxxxx)      3) You are a new certification
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At any time, if you would like personal guidance through this process, please feel free to reach out to CED Clinic or the state’s customer service can be reached at (774) 415-0200
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Don't Miss the HUGE Discounts! 
Don't forget that there are some discounts in the state to help pay back your cost for the medical visit. For example, NETA (in Brookline and Northampton,) Berkshire Roots (Pittsfield), Central Ave Compassionate Care, Sira, Rev Clinics, Garden Remedies, Apothca, and CommCan each offer patients a free $200 dollar product credit for purchases.

Visit our maps page for a list of dispensaries by location and their deals: CEDclinic.com/map

For changes & updates on these, as they change frequently, and other rebates, check out CEDclinic.com/dispensaries 

News at CED

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​As part of our goal to be the leaders in education, CED has been working offer more educational resources online.  If you’d like, we have a full page of recipes to be able to create medicated products at home (foods, candies, drinks, spa products…) and we have started offering free Zoom Fireside Chats on a range of exciting topics (COVID, Sleep, Stress, Identifying the best products for you, Learning how to grow…and more!)  We’ll have guest speakers, dispensary representatives and master growers… all free for CED patients! 

Keep a look out for emailed newsletters, or feel free to check out our events page at CEDclinic.com/events

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Help CED Build a Future Canna-"Companion App"

CED recently started a company to put together a companion app for cannabis consumers, so that individuals who may not know one another might still be able to share valuable insights into products, costs, unpleasant effects, etc…   If you’re interested in being involved, this is an opportunity unique to CED patients, and anyone who helps out will have free, lifetime access to the app, once it launches.  

We've created two surveys to help design the best app possible. You're welcome to complete both surveys, as they each serve a unique purpose. 
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This survey will help us learn some background information about what brings you to cannabis, some nuances about your prior experience with cannabis, a few quick questions about your personality, and how you are hoping to use cannabis this year. We are hoping to learn from the information you share, to generate a personalized recommendation based on the information we receive toward products that we think will help you reach your cannabis goals. Currently, we are learning about treatments for sleep, stress, and pain. The information you provide will also help us begin and optimize the survey and data model to improve the recommendations we make.
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This second survey will collect information before, during, and after a session with cannabis. It will ask some questions to learn how you’re feeling prior to the trial, and then during and/or after the trial (depending on your preferences!) to determine if, and how cannabis might have affected how you were feeling. After learning from this feedback, we hope to learn enough to begin offering some recommendations for how to optimize your experience with your current product, or perhaps recommend a new product that might help you even more. Your feedback will also be used to optimize our data model to provide improving recommendations.

Returning to CED

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Everyone learns differently; and follow up is intended to support you. MA requires a re-certification visit at least once per year with CED. 

Note: The deals for free product credit at the medical dispensaries also renew for you each year.  They are attempting to pay for the costs of the re-certification process, and you can collect as many of those deals as you want. 

You can control the frequency of your follow up visits at CED through CEDclinic.com 
Help End Stigma
If you know anyone who you think would be interested in a medical card or expert guidance, please consider sharing CEDclinic with them!

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