Michigan considering expanding conditions covered under medical marijuana law

(WXYZ) – The State of Michigan’s Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation has opened public comment on a number of medical conditions and treatments that are being considered for addition to the state’s medical marijuana policy.

Public comment will remain open and can be emailed up to 5:00 p.m. on May 3, 2018. You must put “Medical Marihuana Review Panel” in the subject line.

The conditions under consideration are: Anxiety, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic attacks, Schizophrenia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Brain injury, Spinal cord injury, Asthma, Diabetes, Colitis, Gastric Ulcer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Organ transplant, non-severe and non-chronic pain, Parkinson’s, Tourette’s Syndrome, Autism and Chronic pain.

A public hearing will be held on May 4, during which the Review Panel will make recommendations to the Department Director. It will be held at 9:00 a.m. in the Williams Building 1st Floor Auditorium at 525 W Ottawa St, Lansing, MI 48933.

The current list of debilitating medical conditions covered under Michigan’s Medical Marijuana law include:

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• Hepatitis C
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Crohn’s Disease
• Agitation of Alzheimer’s disease
• Nail Patella, or the treatment of these conditions.
• A chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following:
  • Cachexia or Wasting Syndrome
  • Severe and chronic pain
  • Severe nausea
  • Seizures, including but not limited to those characteristic of epilepsy
  • Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including but not limited to those characteristic of multiple sclerosis