Advocates Applaud Panel Recommendation and Look Forward to Health Commissioner’s Decision New Jersey Should Join Other States That Allow Medical Marijuana for Chronic Pain Trenton, NJ— Today, the New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Program Review Panel made initial recommendations to the Health Commissioner to approve chronic pain, migraine, anxiety and Tourette’s Syndrome as qualifying conditions for […]
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New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Review Panel Recommends Adding Chronic Pain and other Conditions to List of Qualifying Conditions
Advocates Applaud Panel Recommendation and Look Forward to Health Commissioner’s Decision New Jersey Should Join Other States That Allow Medical Marijuana for Chronic Pain Trenton, NJ— Today, the New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Program Review Panel made initial recommendations to the Health Commissioner to approve chronic pain related to musculoskeletal disorders, migraines, anxiety, chronic fatigue related […]
New York Department of Health Adds Chronic Pain as Qualifying Condition for Medical Marijuana Program
Advocates Applaud Ongoing Action by Department of Health to Improving New York’s Medical Marijuana Program NEW YORK—Today, the New York State Department of Health announced that they will expand New York’s beleaguered medical marijuana program by adding chronic pain as a qualifying condition under New York’s Compassionate Care Law. This decision by the Department of […]
Pennsylvania Could Be First State To List Autism As Qualifying Condition For MMJ
As the Pennsylvania Senate prepares to review a medical marijuana bill overwhelmingly approved this week by the state House of Representatives, the legislation could be the first in the United States to include Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a qualifying condition to receive a prescription. In its current form, the “functional medical marijuana bill” will […]
New Mexico Medical Cannabis Program Adds Two Qualifying Conditions, Announces Plan to Address Severe Supply Shortage
After Vowing to Repeal the Law, Governor Martinez Appears to be Softening on Her Opposition to Expanding the Program SANTA FE: On Friday, New Mexico’s Secretary of Health Retta Ward announced the Martinez Administration’s decision to approve adding Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease to the list of medical conditions for which New Mexicans are allowed […]
PTSD Included as Qualifying Condition in Maine Medical Pot Law
Last week the Maine legislature added posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of conditions that qualify to be treated legally with medical marijuana. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved the bill amending the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana A… High Times
Medical Cannabis Patients, including Montel Williams, Oppose Petition to Withdraw PTSD as a Qualifying Condition in New Mexico
<p> New Mexico Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Medical Advisory Board Will Hear the Petition, Tomorrow, in Santa Fe</p> <p> Psychiatrists, Military Veterans and Other Patients Scheduled to Testify at the Hearing, Asking the Governor and the Secretary of Health Not to Take Away Their Medicine</p> (Santa Fe, NM) – Tomorrow, from 1 to 5 […]
New Mexico Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Medical Advisory Board Unanimously Recommends to Keep PTSD as a Qualifying Condition
<p> The Final Decision Rests in the Hands of the Acting Secretary of Health</p> (Santa Fe, NM) – Today, the New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program’s Medical Advisory Board unanimously recommended to the Acting Secretary of Health to keep PTSD as qualifying condition and to deny Dr. William Ulwelling’s petition to remove PTSD from the list […]