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Budtenders help customers at ShowGrow, a medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles. Arkansas’amendment legalizes marijuana use for the first time in almost a century though it’s still against federal law. “lt truly lelt like a miracle,” Fayetteville resident Emily Williams said last fall, describing marijuana’s immediate soothing effect on her chemotherapy-induced pain and relentless nausea other medicines failed to alleviate.
Qualifying medical conditions
People with one or more of the following conditions could be eligible for medical marijuana use if their physician believes the benefits outweigh the drawbacks:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Arthritis that’s considered severe
- Cancer
- Crohn’s disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- HIV/AIDS
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Tourette’s syndrome
- Ulcerative colitis
People are also eligible with a chronic condition or treatment for the same that causes one or more of the following:
- Cachexia or wasting syndrome
- Muscle spasms that are severe and persistent
- Nausea that’s considered severe
- Pain that doesn’t respond to other treatments for more than six months
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Seizures
Source: Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016
