If these conditions are met the doctors, nurses and medical office assistants at the clinic will assess the patient to see if medical cannabis is right for them.

If a patient is accepted a prescription will then be written and mailed to a licensed medical marijuana producer with the patient receiving their cannabis by mail a short time later.

Levy said his emotions were mixed following the clinic’s unplanned departure from Oakville.

“It’s disappointing because a lot of work and effort went into setting up that clinic and making sure it was running smoothly. To have to leave that and start over was disappointing,” he said.

“I was angry because there was this perception that because of our clinic there would be all these ne’er-do-wells and people that you wouldn’t want in a professional medical building and that is just not the case…The people we see are genuinely sick.”

Levy said the most common patients seen by the clinic are people dealing with chronic pain.

Other patients include people living with MS (Multiple Sclerosis), Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, anxiety and glaucoma.

Oakville was selected as the location for the new clinic because the community was not being served by one already.

Levy noted that for people living with chronic pain travel is not easy and having a clinic locally meant patients who lived in Oakville and the surrounding area did not have to travel to Toronto or Etobicoke.

Levy said the clinic is moving to a Harvester Road location in Burlington.

The opening date is not clear at this time.