Monday, April 6, 2015
Illinois Could Expand Number of Illnesses Treated by Cannabis
Illinois’ Medical Cannabis Advisory Board
Reviewing 14 Additional Conditions or Diseases
First hearing scheduled for May 4, 2015
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory
Board (board) is reviewing 22 petitions requesting 14
medical conditions or diseases be added to the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program
Act. After its review, the board will hold a hearing
on May 4, 2015 at the James R. Thompson Center in
Chicago to discuss and listen to technical evidence
concerning those 14 medical conditions or diseases.
The board will then make a recommendation to the
director of the Illinois Department of Public Health
about those debilitating conditions or diseases that
would benefit from the medical use of cannabis and
should be considered for addition to the program.
The 14 conditions or diseases for which petitions
will be considered are:
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Chronic Post Operative Pain
• Diabetes
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Essential Thrombcythemia with a JAK 2 mutation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Migraine
• Neuro-Behcet’s Autoimmune disease
• Neuropathy
• Osteoarthritis
• Polycystic kidney disease
• Posttraumatic stress disorder
• Superior canal dehiscence syndrome
Individuals who want to present technical evidence
about a petition being reviewed on May 4, 2015 are
required to file a statement of intent in writing no
later than 15 days prior to the date of the hearing,
or by April 18, 2015, with the Division of Medical
Cannabis.
Citizens can submit petitions to IDPH twice annually
– January 1-January 31 and July 1-July 31. The board
will meet twice a year to consider those petitions.
The following are members of the board and the
experience they bring.
• Chairperson – Leslie Mendoza Temple - family
medicine
• Vice Chairperson – Michael Fine - registered
qualifying patient
• Marissa Arevalo – parent of a registered patient
under age 18
• Paul Bachmann – registered qualifying patient
• James Champion – registered qualifying patient,
veteran
• Eric Christoff – internal medicine
• John Knaus – Medical oncology
• Jacqueline Leskovec – Nurse
• David McCurdy – medical ethics
• Theresa Miller – Nurse
• Jyotin Parikh – pharmacy
• Nestor Ramirez - pediatrics
• Allison Weathers – neurology
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