What Medicinal Cannabis Records Should I Keep in New Zealand?
A short, practical checklist for prescribed patients.
If you are prescribed medicinal cannabis in New Zealand, it is worth being able to find the relevant paperwork without digging. This is a short checklist rather than a full explanation of why records matter.
What to keep access to
- Your current prescription
- Prescribing or health-practitioner instructions, especially any instructions concerning driving
- Relevant manufacturer or product instructions
- Pharmacy and dispensing information
- Records of any change in product, dose or instructions
- A contemporaneous intake history
How these differ
These are four different things, and each answers a different question.
- Prescription — what was prescribed.
- Instructions — what you were told to do.
- Dispensing information — what was supplied.
- Intake history — what you recorded taking, and when.
The first three usually come from someone else and are held as documents. The fourth only exists if you create it as you go.
Where DriveClear fits
DriveClear provides the intake-history part of this picture. Each intake is recorded at the time, building a treatment timeline rather than a reconstruction.
Where timing forms part of an applicable instruction, a contemporaneous DriveClear intake record can provide evidence relevant to establishing your recorded treatment timeline and whether that timeline is consistent with the instruction.
The Roadside Summary presents that information as a plain, factual view of what you recorded — nothing more is added or inferred.
DriveClear does not determine impairment or guarantee a legal outcome.
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