The state Department of Consumer Protection will hold a hearing later this month to consider adding four new health conditions that can qualify patients to legally purchase medical marijuana.
DCP has received petitions to add sickle cell disease, Tourette’s, severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and a back-pain condition called post-laminectomy syndrome with chronic radiculopathy.Â
The hearing will be held Nov. 26 at 8:30 a.m. at 165 Capitol Ave. in Hartford.
Debilitating medical conditions already included in the state’s medical marijuana program include: cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s Disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord nervous tissue damage, spasticity, epilepsy, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Crohn’s Disease and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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