Patients in Ohio diagnosed with one of the following severe, debilitating, or life-threatening medical conditions, are afforded legal protection under the Ohio medical marijuana law, as per House Bill 523 — “The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program”:
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also know as Lou Gehrig’s disease
- Cancer
- chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- Crohn’s disease
- Epilepsy
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- hepatitis C
- HIV-AIDS
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Chronic, severe, or intractable pain
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Sickle cell anemia
- Spinal cord disease, or injury
- Tourette Syndrome
- Traumatic brain injury
- Ulcerative colitis
