In general, anyone with a qualifying condition and symptoms being treated (or treated in the past) with prescription medications will qualify for treatment.

• Chronic Pain
• Painful muscle spasms
• Neuropathy
• PTSD

that hasnt responded to prescription medications, OR

• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Cancer
• HIV/AIDS
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Spinal Cord Inury
• Epilepsy
• Crohn’s Disease (IBD)
• Ulcerative Colitis (IBD)
• Huntington’s Disease

that has been treated with prescription medications and is associated with one of the following symptoms:

• Severe Pain
• Severe Nausea
• Seizures
• Cachexia or Wasting Syndrome (weight loss)
• Non-Painful Muscle Spasms
• Spasticity

In general, this occurs in 2 situations.

1) When the diagnosis falls under a general category that is an approved condition. For example, “Leukemia” is not on the list. But since it is a form of cancer it is actually approved.

2) When a condition that isn’t on the list is associated with a condition that is on the list of qualifying conditions but isn’t officially diagnosed. For example, someone with a diagnosis of Restless Legs Syndrome may experience severe chronic pain. Even if they don’t have an official diagnosis of chronic pain, since they actually suffer from chronic pain, they may qualify for treatment with medical marijuana, if other prescription medications have been used to treat their restless legs (and associated chronic pain).

XYZ can be anything. In general, if XYZ causes chronic pain, painful muscle spasms, or is a type of one of the qualifying conditions (Cancer, PTSD, Neuropathy, M.S., Parkinson’s, Spinal Cord injury, Seizure disorder, ALS, Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Huntington’s disease) you may qualify.

However, you may need to have a diagnosed condition as well as an associated symptom (a diagnosis of M.S. without associated pain, muscle spasms, spasticity or another qualifying symptom).

You will also need to have been treated with other conventional prescription medications first.

When these conditions are met, the doctor will usually recommend medical marijuana because it is considered to be in a patients best interest.

However, there are some situations where the doctor would not recommend medical marijuana. If he decides it is not in a patient’s best interest, for example, if a patient is allergic to marijuana, or a patient is pregnant (since it can harm the baby) then the doctor would not recommend it to them.

While the only way to definitely know whether you would qualify is by meeting with the doctor who will thoroughly review your medical records and examine you, nearly 95% of the time you can find out if you qualify by using our interactive tool.

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• Chronic pain: 90% of patients say it works better than powerful painkillers like Percocet or Oxycodone (Opioids).
• Most patients are able to reduce their painkillers.
• For patients who have pain related to cancer, MS, ALS, Crohn’s disease or another condition it also works really well.
• Multiple Sclerosis It helps many patients with MS who have pain and muscle spasms or spasticity. For other conditions like PTSD or Parkinson’s disease there is less evidence but many patients find that it helps them a lot.
• Cancer patients often report that it helps with pain and nausea.