Arthritis, chronic migraines and complex regional pain syndrome approved
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The Ohio State Medical Board tacitly approved three new medical marijuana qualification requirements and submitted two more for approval later that year.
The board’s medical marijuana committee noted in February that three conditions were already covered by the existing qualification of chronic and severe or difficult-to-treat pain.
These conditions are: arthritis, chronic migraines, and complex regional pain syndrome.
The medical association issued a memo Two weeks ago it was confirmed that the conditions under the existing list are qualified but not yet sent to doctors. The memo will be posted in the monthly newsletter for doctors who have signed up to recommend medical marijuana, a board spokeswoman said.
The committee members differentiated between occasional migraines and migraines that occur several days a month.
“It’s not like someone has a migraine once a year that resolves on its own and is a candidate,” said board member Dr. Amol Soin in February. “I don’t think that’s the intention here.”
Each year the Medical Board accepts submissions for new qualifying conditions to be added to Ohio’s 22nd list. Submissions must include evidence that cannabis can be used to treat or alleviate the disease or condition, as well as letters of support from doctors. The board has only added one condition so far: Approval of cachexia or wasting syndrome in 2020.
This year the board received 30 petitions to add new conditions.
The board’s medical marijuana committee this week set two conditions for board approval at a future meeting: spasticity or persistent muscle spasms and terminal illnesses. With spasticity, a person’s muscles stiffen or tense and cannot be stretched. This can affect movement and speech.
The committee rejected applications for panic disorder with agoraphobia, restless leg syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder. Earlier this year Legislators have introduced a bill to add autism to the list.
To receive a medical marijuana card, patients must meet one of the qualifying medical conditions and receive a referral from a state-certified doctor. Doctors must have a “good faith” relationship between doctor and patient with the patient and continuously care for the patient.
Ohio Medical Marijuana Conditions
Ohio has 22 medical marijuana qualifications:
- AIDS.
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
- Alzheimer’s disease.
- Cachexia.
- Cancer.
- chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
- Crohn’s disease.
- Epilepsy or any other seizure disorder.
- Fibromyalgia.
- Glaucoma.
- Hepatitis C.
- inflammatory bowel disease.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Pain that is either chronic and severe or persistent.
- Parkinson’s disease.
- positive status for HIV.
- post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Sickle cell anemia.
- Spinal cord disease or injury.
- Tourett’s syndrome.
- Traumatic brain injury.
- Ulcerative colitis.
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