By Greg Bishop / INN -
Those looking to use medical cannabis to ease anxiety or help with their diabetes will have to look elsewhere after the state’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Board voted against recommending the Illinois Department of Public Health include the conditions as qualifying conditions. However, the Chicago Tribune reports the panel did vote to recommend the drug for irritable bowel syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder and migraines.
The Board also voted to recommend osteoarthritis and two forms of nerve damage, but not diabetes. Currently there are several dozen conditions that allow qualifying patients to use medical marijuana approved by the IDPH, if they go through the litany of requirements to get a medical cannabis card from the state. More than 2,000 medical cannabis card holders are still waiting for the first product from the state approved dispensaries.
