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What are the qualifying conditions for medical marijuana? - Pennsylvania

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Updated over 3 weeks ago

A "serious medical condition" under the law is any one of the following:

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;

  • Anxiety disorders;

  • Autism;

  • Cancer, including remission therapy;

  • Chronic Hepatitis C;

  • Crohn's disease;

  • Damage to the nervous tissue of the central nervous system (brain-spinal cord) with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, and other associated neuropathies;

  • Dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders;

  • Epilepsy;

  • Glaucoma;

  • HIV / AIDS;

  • Huntington's disease;

  • Inflammatory bowel disease;

  • Intractable seizures;

  • Multiple sclerosis;

  • Neurodegenerative diseases;

  • Neuropathies;

  • Opioid use disorder for which conventional therapeutic interventions are contraindicated or ineffective, or for which adjunctive therapy is indicated in combination with primary therapeutic interventions;

  • Parkinson's disease;

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder;

  • Severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe chronic or intractable pain;

  • Sickle cell anemia;

  • Terminal illness; and

  • Tourette syndrome.

    The following list is comprised of medical conditions approved as a ''serious medical condition limited to Chapter 20 research purposes only'' under the act:

  • Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) with Chronic Symptoms.

  • Type II Diabetes Mellitus.

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