What conditions qualify for medical marijuana in New York?
Assembly Bill 6357 allows patients diagnosed with one of the following conditions to be eligible for medical marijuana:
- Cancer
- positive status for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or
- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Lou Gehrig’s Disease
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with an objective neurological indication of intractable Spasticity
- Epilepsy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Crohn’s Disease
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating
- Polyneuropathy
- Neuropathies and Huntington’s Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)