Physician Board Recommends Chronic Pain For Connecticut's Medical Marijuana Program

HARTFORD, CT — The Medical Marijuana Program Board of Physicians has recommended adding chronic pain and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to the list of approved conditions for the use of medical marijuana.

The doctors met Friday morning, where they also declined to add night terrors/parasomnia to the list of approved medical conditions because of a lack of research into the use of cannabis for treatment.

Neither chronic pain nor Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome was recommended for patients under 18.

The board’s vote begins a lengthy review period for state agencies to draft regulations for chronic pain and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome patients to eventually participate in the program. Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Michelle Seagull said the process can take about a year.

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