Qualifying Medical Conditions

The following medical conditions or their treatment qualify for participation in the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Program:

• Cancer
• Parkinson's disease
• Huntington's disease
• muscular dystrophy
• glaucoma
• spastic quadriplegia
• positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
• hepatitis
• amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Crohn's disease
• ulcerative colitis
• sickle-cell anemia
• Alzheimer's disease
• agitation of dementia
• post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• autism
• pain refractory to appropriate opioid management
• diabetic/peripheral neuropathy
• spinal cord disease or severe injury

Also qualifying is a chronic terminal or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following:

• cachexia or wasting syndrome
• chronic pain
• severe or intractable nausea
• seizures
• severe and persistent muscle spasms including, but not limited to, those characteristic of multiple sclerosis