Qualifying Conditions for Legal Medical Marijuana in North and South Carolina
What are the Qualifying Debilitating Conditions Required to Receive Medical Cannabis for Treatment?
North Carolina Qualifying Conditions:
To Be Determined
South Carolina Qualifying Conditions:
To Be Determined
Below are examples of Qualified Conditions in other states that may qualify patients in KY when medical marijuana is approved.
- Cancer
- Glaucoma
- Positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
- Hepatitis C
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Crohn’s disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Spinal cord injury or disease
- Traumatic brain injury
- Epilepsy
- Lupus
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Ulcerative colitis
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- A severely debilitating or terminal medical condition or its treatment that has produced at least one of the following:
- Elevated intraocular pressure
- Cachexia
- Chemotherapy
- Anorexia
- Wasting syndrome
- Severe pain that has not responded to previously prescribed medication or surgical measures or for which other treatment options produced serious side effects, constant or severe nausea, moderate to severe vomiting, seizures, or severe, persistent muscle spasms
- Moderate to severe chronic pain.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)