Welcome to GreenWay Alaska! We are an online resource and physicians’ network that helps patients obtain their medical marijuana cards in Alaska. We also have a full range of online resources to help you navigate the application process and learn more as you begin your treatment with medical marijuana.
Medical Marijuana History in Alaska
The Alaska Medical Marijuana Program is embodied in Ballot Measure No.8, which was approved by 58% of the voters on November 3, 1998, and was made effective on March 4, 1999. The law removed state-level criminal penalties on the use, possession, and cultivation of medical marijuana by qualifying patients who had been certified by a physician confirming a debilitating medical condition and that such patient might benefit from the medical use of marijuana.
Since its approval, the law has undergone major amendments. The first was Senate Bill 94, which was made effective June 2, 1999. Bill 94 prescribes that patients and their primary caregivers have to enroll in the state patient registry and must possess valid identification cards to have legal protection of the law for the use of medical marijuana.
The law was further updated through the Alaska Statute Title 17, Chapter 37, which creates a confidential statewide registry of medical marijuana patients and designated caregivers and establishes registry identification cards.
Registration in the program is mandatory. Alaska does not accept registry identification cards from other states that operate their own medical marijuana programs.
The Program is administered by the Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Marijuana Registry.