Who Qualifies for Alabama Medical Marijuana?
Patients in Alabama must be diagnosed with one or more of the following conditions by a qualified physician:
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Panic disorder
- Depression
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Crohn’s disease
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Parkinson’s disease
- Sickle cell anemia
- Epilepsy or an infection causing seizures
- A terminal illness
- HIV/AIDS-related nausea or weight loss
- Cancer-related cachexia, nausea or vomiting, weight loss, or chronic pain
- Spasticity associated with a motion neuron disease, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease)
- Spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis or a spinal cord injury
- Persistent nausea that is not significantly responsive to traditional treatment. Exceptions include: nausea related to pregnancy, cannabis-induced cyclical vomiting syndrome, or cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
- A condition causing chronic or intractable pain in which conventional therapeutic intervention and opiate therapy isn’t advised or has proved ineffective