What are the approved "serious medical conditions"?

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A "serious medical condition" under the law is any one of the following:

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• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis;

• Anxiety disorders (effective no later than July 20, 2019);

• 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; and

• Tourette syndrome (effective no later than July 20, 2019)