Many experts agree that marijuana offers relief when other medications don't work or produce uncomfortable side effects. Its effectiveness in reducing painful and adverse side effects in cancer patients and those with multiple sclerosis has been shown to improve the quality of their lives. In order to use marijuana for medical purposes in Pennsylvania, a physician must certify that you suffer from one of the Qualifying Medical Conditions, listed below.
The Occupational Health Center's physicians can provide certification for the use of medical marijuana at a low price for a full-year certification.
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Qualifying Medical Conditions
Only patients suffering from one of the following medical conditions can participate in Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Anxiety disorders
- Autism
- Cancer, including remission therapy
- Crohn's disease
- Damage to the nervous tissue of the central nervous system (brain-spinal cord) with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity and other associated neuropathies
- Dyskinetic and spastic movement disorders
- Epilepsy
- Glaucoma
- HIV/AIDS
- Huntington's disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Intractable seizures
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- Neuropathies
- Opioid use disorder for which conventional therapeutic interventions are contraindicated or ineffective, or for which adjunctive therapy is indicated in combination with primary therapeutic interventions
- Parkinson's disease
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Severe chronic or intractable pain of neuropathic origin or severe chronic or intractable pain
- Sickle cell anemia
- Terminal illness
- Tourette syndrome
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