A Michigan regulator has until tomorrow to make a final decision on an advisory board’s recommendation to add several new medical conditions for the use of marijuana.
The Michigan Medical Marijuana Review Panel has recommended that the state allow the use of medical marijuana for the treatment of autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome, Parkinson’s, inflammatory bowel disease, spinal cord injuries, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and chronic pain.
The State Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs is scheduled to rule on nine of the conditions.
A decision of the chronic pain recommendation is not due until next month because a petition calling for its inclusion was filed later than the others.
Marijuana is currently allowed to relieve the side effects of cancer and other conditions.
The only other treatment condition added since voters approved the law in 2008 was for post traumatic stress disorder