According to the data, 845,000 up to 985,000 Mississippians qualify for medical marijuana…that’s one third of Mississippi!

The following medical conditions or their treatment qualify for participation in the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program:

• cancer

• Parkinson's disease

• Huntington's disease

• muscular dystrophy

• glaucoma

• spastic quadriplegia

• positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

• acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)

• hepatitis

• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

• Crohn's disease

• ulcerative colitis

• sickle-cell anemia

• Alzheimer's disease

• agitation of dementia

• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• autism

• pain refractory to appropriate opioid management

• diabetic/peripheral neuropathy

• spinal cord disease or severe injury

Also qualifying is a chronic terminal or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following:

• cachexia or wasting syndrome

• chronic pain

• severe or intractable nausea

• seizures

• severe and persistent muscle spasms including, but not limited to, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis

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https://www.cdc.gov/hiv-data/nhss/index.html

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