North Dakota Medical Marijuana Law

Status

Operational

Law Signed:

2016

QUALIFYING CONDITIONS

Agitation from Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Anorexia nervosa
Anxiety disorder
Autism spectrum disorder
Brain injury
Bulimia nervosa
Cachexia or Wasting syndrome
Cancer
Chronic or debilitating disease
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 three ounces of herbal medical cannabis provided by state licensed dispensaries. A registered qualifying patient may not purchase or have purchased by a registered designated caregiver more than the maximum concentration or amount of tetrahydrocannabinol permitted in a thirty – day period. The maximum concentration or amount of tetrahydrocannabinol permitted in a thirty – day period for a cannabinoid concentrate or medical cannabinoid product, or the cumulative total of both, is six thousand milligrams. Patients must have a specific certification from their physician in order to consume herbal cannabis formulations via combustion. Otherwise patients are permitted only to obtain cannabis infused tinctures, capsules, patches, or topical. Edible products are not defined as a “medical cannabinoid product” under the act. A health care provider may authorize the use an enhanced amount (up to six ounces) of dried leaves or flowers of the plant of the genus cannabis in a combustible delivery form to treat or alleviate the patient’s debilitating medical condition of cancer.