COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State Medical Board approved medical marijuana treatment for three new conditions this week.
According to the State Medical Board there are currently twenty-five approved conditions. Huntington’s disease, terminal illness and spasticity being the three most recently added.
In April the State Medical Board approved a increase in the number of medical marijuana dispensaries within the state. Currently over 150,000 Ohioans receive medical marijuana treatment.
Below is the complete list of Medical Marijuana qualifying conditions:
- AIDS
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- cachexia
- cancer
- chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- Crohn’s disease
- epilepsy or another seizure disorder
- fibromyalgia
- glaucoma
- hepatitis C
- inflammatory bowel disease
- multiple sclerosis
- pain that is either chronic and severe or intractable
- Parkinson’s disease
- positive status for HIV
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- sickle cell anemia
- spinal cord disease or injury
- Tourette’s syndrome
- traumatic brain injury
- ulcerative colitis