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PROVIDENCE — The state Department of Health has rejected a request to add opioid dependency to the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana use, saying chronic pain—the reason people are prescribed the potentially-addictive drugs—is already a qualifying condition for the program.
But the department also cited a lack of scientific research in the effectiveness of marijuana as another reason for its decision.
Earlier this year the B&B Medical Marijuana Evaluation Center, of Warwick, which writes the required recommendations for medicinal cannabis, asked the department to add opioid addiction to the half-dozen permitted uses for medical marijuana.
