Florida keeps a Medical Marijuana Use Registry, and only a qualified physician can enter a patient into it. That takes a real visit: your diagnosis, your records, an examination, and an answer you get in the room rather than by email. We do that here on Beracasa Way — and if we don't think you meet the state's criteria, we'll tell you that instead.
Takes about 30 seconds. We call you back within one business day.
Plain definitions
Two separate things get confused constantly, and it's worth separating them before you book anything. The certification is a medical act: a qualified physician evaluates you and, where the state's criteria are met, records that certification in Florida's Medical Marijuana Use Registry. The identification card is issued afterwards by the Florida Department of Health, on an application you submit yourself, with a fee the state sets. Nobody in a medical office can hand you a card across a desk.
What that means practically is that the visit is an evaluation, not a transaction. We're deciding a clinical question — whether your condition falls inside what Florida covers — and that decision is made with your records in front of us. Patients come from Delray Beach and Boynton Beach for an evaluation done that way.
How the visit actually goes
Here's the visit, step by step.
We take the condition you're here about seriously enough to ask about all of it — when it started, how it was diagnosed, what's already been tried, what you take now and how you're doing on it. There's a physical examination. This is a medical visit, and it is conducted like one.
Bring what documents the diagnosis: notes from the treating physician, imaging, hospital or specialist summaries. Records do most of the work here. If you can't put your hands on them, call before your visit and we'll tell you exactly what to request and who to ask.
If the state's criteria are met, a qualified physician enters your certification into the Medical Marijuana Use Registry, and you'll have what's been authorised explained to you before it's filed. If they aren't met, you hear that in the room, with the reason — not a maybe, and not a referral to somebody who'll say yes.
You apply to the Florida Department of Health for the identification card yourself; the state charges its own fee for that, paid to the state and not to us. Certifications and cards both expire. We put your dates in writing and book the re-evaluation before you walk out.
Qualifying conditions
Florida law names the conditions that qualify, and the Department of Health maintains the current list. In broad terms it covers a set of named diagnoses — among them cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV and AIDS, post-traumatic stress disorder, ALS, Crohn's disease, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis — together with terminal illness, chronic non-malignant pain arising from a qualifying condition, and conditions a physician determines to be of the same kind or class as those named.
That last category is where most real cases live, and it is a clinical judgment rather than a checkbox. It's also why no honest answer exists before an evaluation. The state's list has changed before and can change again, so we check your case against what Florida requires on the day you come in.
The visit goes faster and lands better when the documentation is in the room with you.
We'd rather turn a request down than certify something we can't stand behind.
Patients under 18 are subject to additional requirements under Florida law. Call the office before booking and we'll explain what's involved.
Straight answers
These are the limits patients most often find out too late.
It doesn't override anyone else's rules. Being certified in Florida does not change an employer's drug policy, does not alter requirements for federally regulated work or federal property, and does not make impaired driving anything other than illegal. If any of that touches your job, settle it before you decide. When a question is legal rather than medical, ask a lawyer; that's outside what we can answer.
It isn't a product recommendation. Purchasing happens at state-licensed treatment centers, not here. What we do is explain what has been authorised and why, tell you plainly what we'd want you to be cautious with, and stay available when something doesn't sit right.
It isn't consequence-free. Cannabis affects cognition, coordination, mood and appetite, and it can interact with medications you already take. We go through that at the visit — what to watch for, what to avoid combining it with, and when to pick up the phone. Patients who'd rather hear the downsides first tend to do better with the decision.
It isn't the whole of your care. If chronic pain is what brought you in, mention it — — orthopedic PRP for joints is a different conversation about the same joints, and one worth having. If fatigue, sleep or weight are tangled up in the picture, say so at the visit.
LifeBoost is a self-pay practice, so there's no insurance authorisation to chase and no bill turning up weeks later. We see patients from Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach and Deerfield Beach at one office, with the same small team each time.
Who you'll see
You'll be told which provider you're booked with before you arrive, and your file stays with the same team from the first evaluation through every renewal after it.
Related care
If pain, fatigue, sleep or weight are also part of why you're here, raise them at the same visit.
Before you call
Honestly, you don't until you're examined, and neither do we. Florida names the conditions that qualify and also allows a physician to judge that a condition is of the same kind or class as those named. That judgment needs your history, your records and an examination. What we can tell you on the phone is what to bring so the visit is worth taking.
We go through the condition you're being evaluated for, the records that document it, the treatments you've already tried and everything you currently take. There's an examination. Then you get an answer in the room — either a certification entered into the state registry with an explanation of what it authorises, or the reasons we don't think the criteria are met.
Florida residency is part of the state's requirement, so bring photo identification that establishes it. Bring records that document your diagnosis — notes from the treating physician, imaging, discharge summaries — plus a current list of medications and supplements. If you're not sure what you have, call the office and we'll tell you what to request and who to ask for it.
A certification isn't permanent. Florida sets how often you must be re-examined, and your state identification card runs on its own separate renewal cycle. Both dates get confirmed at your visit so you aren't finding out at a dispensary counter that something lapsed. We schedule the re-evaluation before you leave.
No. LifeBoost is a medical office, not a dispensary — nothing is sold here, and product is bought from state-licensed treatment centers. Insurance does not cover certification; this is self-pay, and you'll know our price before anything is done. The State of Florida charges its own separate fee for the identification card, paid to the state rather than to us.
This page is for general information and is not medical advice. Whether any treatment is appropriate for you is determined after evaluation and, where indicated, laboratory testing.
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