Status
Operational
Law Signed:
2016
QUALIFYING CONDITIONS
- Agitation from Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anxiety disorder
- Autism
- Brain injury
- Bulimia nervosa
- Cachexia or Wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Chronic or debilitating disease
- Chronic back pain
- Crohn’s disease
- Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Endometriosis
- Epilepsy
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- HIV/AIDS
- Interstitial cystitis
- Intractable nausea
- Neuropathy
- Migraine
- Multiple sclerosis
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Seizures
- Severe and persistent muscle spasms
- Severe debilitating pain
- Spinal Stenosis
- Terminally ill patients admitted to hospice care **
- Tourette syndrome
** These patients are permitted to self-certify
PATIENT POSSESSION LIMITS
Patients who possess a physician’s recommendation may legally obtain up to 2.5 ounces of botanical medical cannabis provided by state licensed dispensaries. Patients with the debilitating medical condition of cancer may be authorized by their health care provider to purchase up to 6 ounces of flower. Up to 6,000 mg THC total of other products. For patients under 19 years of age, designated caregivers can purchase on patient’s behalf (within 30 days) up to 6,000 mg of THC. Pediatric product cannot be greater than 6% THC.
House Bill 1203 permits edibles only in the form of hard or soft lozenges in a square shape that contain no more than 5 mg of THC per serving and no more than 50 mg per package.
HOME CULTIVATION
No. This provision was removed by lawmakers by the passage of SB 2344.
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES
Yes, but no more than two producers and eight dispensaries.
STATE-LICENSED DISPENSARIES OPERATIONAL
Yes
DELIVERY
- No
CAREGIVERS
- No
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF REGISTERED PATIENTS
- 10,242
- Source: North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services 3/6/25
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTIONS FOR QUALIFYING PATIENTS
- No
