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State Medical Board to Consider More Conditions Treated With Medical Marijuana in Ohio

The board is reviewing petitions asking that opioid addiction, autism, depression and other conditions be treated with medical marijuana use.

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Fox 8 (Cleveland)
January 9, 2019

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state medical board is reviewing petitions asking that opioid addiction, autism, depression and other conditions be treated with medical marijuana use in Ohio.

Cannabis products are becoming available in Ohio dispensaries over the next few months following delays in rolling out the program last year.

Patients need a physician's recommendation to buy medical marijuana from such dispensaries to treat allowable conditions, which currently include AIDS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, cancer, epilepsy and several other maladies.

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