Anyone getting ready to apply for Illinois's new medical marijuana program?

[Peregrine Took]

Or if you have already applied - how did the application process go?

[frazzled]

1. No (not interested myself) but qualifying conditions are fairly limited

and you must obtain written confirmation from your physician that you have one of the following debilitating conditions, and that you have been diagnosed in office, and that you are under that physician's care for the treatment of the condition. Otherwise, if you have headaches or backaches, fuhgeddaboudit.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Agitation of Alzheimer's disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Arnold-Chiari malformation and Syringomelia
Cachexia/wasting syndrom
Cancer
Causalgia
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
Crohn's disease
CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type II)
Dystonia
Fibromyalgia (severe)
Fibrous dysplasia
Glaucoma
Hepatitis C
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
Hydrocephalus
Interstitial Cystitis
Lupus
Multiple Sclerosis
Muscular dystrophy
Myasthenia Gravis
Myoclonus
Nail-patella syndrome
Neurofibromatosis
Parkinson's disease
Post-concussion syndrome
RSD (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes Type I)
Residual limb pain
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy (Starting January 1, 2015)
Sjogren's syndrome
Spinal cord disease, including, but not limited to, arachnoiditis, Tarlov cysts, hydromyelia, syringomyelia
Spinal cord injury
Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA)
Tourette’s syndrome
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

http://www.idph.state.il.us/HealthWellness/MedicalCannabis/faq.htm

[marble falls]

2. The only positive side of my having cancer.

[frazzled]

3. Sorry about that

There's nothing really positive about having cancer, except that treatments have improved dramatically over the past decade or so.

[marble falls]

4. Please don't worry. I am going to be alright no matter what happens. I am very satisfied with ....

my treatment at VA.

The only thing that bugs me a little is I have a smokers cancer(bladder cancer) and I've never smoked. 2nd hand smoker's cancer. I used to have some sympathy for "smoker's rights".

[mucifer]

5. As a pediatric hospice and palliative care nurse I'm hoping it might help

some of my patients be more comfortable. I do like that one of the diagnoses is "cachexia". This can apply to many diagnoses where the person cannot absorb nutrition properly. It occurs in cancer and AIDS. But, it also occurs in many other diseases. When the law is fully in effect, I can think of a few of my patients who might benefit from the new law. That is if their families approve.