Here's the list of Mississippi medical marijuana qualifying conditions
Medical marijuana is now legal in Mississippi after Gov. Tate Reeves signed the bill creating the program into law Wednesday evening.
Under the Mississippi State Department of Health's oversight, the program will get up and running in 120 days with the first licenses and registrations being given to cannabis growing, cultivation and packaging facilities. Within 150 days of the bill becoming law, the dispensaries will be licensed.
Most notable among the changes is the amount of cannabis a medical marijuana patient can purchase a month. The law allows for 3 ounces of marijuana per month, significantly less than the 5 ounces voters approved in November 2020.
One main qualifier is that those receiving medical marijuana cards in Mississippi have to be suffering from one of the defined "debilitating medical conditions" and have their status certified by a physician.
"Debilitating medical conditions," include:
Cancer
Parkinson's disease
Huntington's disease
Muscular dystrophy
Glaucoma
Spastic quadriplegia
Positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Hepatitis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Crohn's disease
Ulcerative colitis
Sickle-cell anemia
Alzheimer's disease
Agitation of dementias
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Autism
Pain refractory to appropriate opioid management
Diabetic/peripheral neuropathy
Spinal cord disease or severe injury
It also allows for those with chronic, terminal or debilitating disease or medical conditions that produces one or more of the following:
Cachexia or wasting syndrome
Chronic pain
Severe or intractable nausea
Seizures
Severe and persistent muscle spasms
The act also allows for "any other serious medical condition or its treatment added by the Mississippi Department of Health."
This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Medical marijuana approved in Mississippi. Here's how you qualify.