Greenlight Dispensary on Chippewa Street is a straightforward trip from Carondelet via Interstate 55, which runs right through the neighborhood.
Some Missouri dispensaries deliver directly to certified patients — worth asking once your Patient ID card is active.
Pick a time that works and meet with a Missouri-licensed practitioner over video from wherever you are.
Your practitioner reviews your health history and, if appropriate, issues a certification through Missouri's Complia system.
Within 30 days, submit your own state application. Once DHSS approves it, your card is valid for three years and is what a dispensary will check.
"I didn't realize the certification and the state card were two different things until this walked me through it. Saved me a wasted trip to the dispensary."
Straight from Missouri's DHSS.
General information only — always confirm specifics with your provider.
Missouri names chronic conditions involving severe, persistent pain — similar to what's associated with multiple sclerosis — as a qualifying category, evaluated individually by your practitioner.
Missouri requires this diagnosis to come from a state-licensed psychiatrist for it to count under the named list. Bring documentation if you have it.
Missouri's psychiatric-disorder category extends past PTSD alone. Your practitioner determines whether a specific diagnosis qualifies during your evaluation.
Not named specifically on Missouri's list, but a common topic that may be addressed under a practitioner's broader discretion.
Missouri allows practitioners to certify other chronic or debilitating conditions beyond the named list — ALS, Crohn's disease, and hepatitis C have all qualified this way in practice.
Carondelet was founded in 1767 as an independent French village and operated as its own incorporated city starting in 1851 — it wasn't annexed into St. Louis until 1870.
In 1873, educator Susan Blow opened the first public kindergarten in the United States at the Des Peres School here, after studying Friedrich Fröbel's methods in Germany. The building still stands today, now home to the Carondelet Historical Society.
Carondelet Park opened on July 4, 1876, and remains the third-largest park in St. Louis at roughly 180 acres, complete with the historic Lyle Mansion and two fishing lakes.
Bellerive Park sits along the neighborhood's eastern edge, offering some of the best river views anywhere in the city — a quiet counterpoint to Carondelet's industrial past.
This site is centered on Carondelet, but Missouri's certification process is the same throughout the state, and residency isn't required at all to apply.
Carondelet began in 1767 as an independent French village, was renamed in 1794, and operated as its own incorporated city from 1851 until its 1870 annexation into St. Louis. It's home to the site of the first public kindergarten in the United States, opened in 1873 by educator Susan Blow, as well as the 180-acre Carondelet Park and the riverside overlook at Bellerive Park. For medical cannabis access, Carondelet 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 checks at the point of sale.
Missouri's qualifying conditions list includes cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, and psychiatrist-diagnosed PTSD, among others, with practitioners also free to certify other chronic or debilitating conditions case by case. Full detail is available at the Missouri DHSS medical marijuana program page.