Meet with a Missouri-licensed physician or nurse practitioner from home. Get certified, then let us guide you through the state Patient ID card that follows.
Greenlight Dispensary sits on Chippewa Street, which forms St. Louis Hills' own northern border — an easy trip once you're certified.
Some Missouri dispensaries offer direct delivery to certified patients — worth asking once your Patient ID card is active.
Clear, professional, and no confusion about what happens after certification.
Whole visit took less time than I expected. Practitioner was thorough anyway.
Appreciated the honesty about the two-step process upfront.
Based on current Missouri DHSS rules.
No. It's what allows you to apply for the state Patient ID card — that card, not the certification, is what a dispensary checks.
A mix of named conditions — cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, and psychiatrist-diagnosed PTSD among them — and practitioner discretion for other chronic or debilitating conditions.
Generally not. A genuine telehealth evaluation by video or audio with a licensed practitioner typically meets Missouri's requirement.
$28.14 for the Patient ID card, under the current DHSS schedule. Your practitioner's fee is separate from that.
Three years from issue — a longer window than most states allow.
No. Missouri eliminated its residency requirement entirely.
MDs, DOs, and nurse practitioners licensed in Missouri. Physician assistants are not authorized under this program.
6 ounces per month by default, though a practitioner can specify more on your certification when clinically warranted.
General education only.
Named directly in Missouri's list as a category involving severe, persistent pain, evaluated on an individual basis by your practitioner.
Requires diagnosis from a state-licensed psychiatrist specifically to count under Missouri's named conditions list.
Falls under Missouri's broader psychiatric-disorder category, assessed case by case during your evaluation.
Not named specifically, but a frequent topic that may qualify under a practitioner's broader discretion.
Explicitly included on Missouri's list, often discussed alongside conditions like Parkinson's or seizure disorders.
Practitioners can still certify other chronic or debilitating conditions — ALS and Crohn's disease are examples that have qualified this way.
That was the actual marketing slogan developer Cyrus Crane Willmore used in the 1930s to sell St. Louis Hills — one of the last large areas developed within the city's 1876 boundaries.
Francis Park's lily pond is home to "Francine the Mermaid," a statue unveiled in 2002, alongside a 2018 bronze of namesake David R. Francis, who donated the 60-acre park to the city in 1916.
Willmore Park, created in 1947, was the last major park developed within St. Louis city limits — 105 acres including fishing lakes, a disc golf course, and a dog park.
Every holiday season, the 6500 block of Murdoch Avenue transforms into a neighborhood tradition, strung with hundreds of strands of Christmas lights.
This site is centered on St. Louis Hills, but Missouri's certification process is identical statewide, and residency isn't a requirement to apply at all.
St. Louis Hills sat largely undeveloped for a century and a half despite tracing back to 1768 French colonial land grants, until developer Cyrus Crane Willmore began building it out in the 1920s under the slogan "Country living in the City." Bounded by Chippewa Street, Hampton Avenue, Gravois Avenue, and the county line, it's known today for Tudor-style homes, Francis and Willmore Parks, and among the lowest crime rates of any residential neighborhood in the city. For medical cannabis access, St. Louis Hills residents follow the same statewide Missouri process as anywhere else.
Missouri requires two separate approvals. A physician, DO, or nurse practitioner first issues a certification under Article XIV of the Missouri Constitution. The patient must then independently apply for a state Patient ID card through DHSS's Complia portal — and it's that card, not the certification, that a licensed dispensary actually checks.
Missouri's qualifying conditions include cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, and psychiatrist-diagnosed PTSD, among others, while also giving practitioners discretion to certify other chronic or debilitating conditions case by case. Full detail is available at the Missouri DHSS medical marijuana program page.