The Iowa medical cannabis board has recommended that children with severe autism be given access — while deciding not to add P-T-S-D, bipolar disorder, or A-D-H-D as qualifying conditions The eight-member board voted after hearing emotional testimony from a mother who says she’s tried everything to treat her daughter’s autism. The issue now goes to the Board of Medicine for final approval.
Randy Mayer oversees the state’s medical cannabis program.
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The board did not recommend any change to the three-percent T-H-C cap on medical cannabis produced for sale in the state. Advocates and cannabis producers say that limits the program and pain relief. Medical marijuana advocate Sally Gaer of West Des Moines says the T-H-C cap is one of the thing she’ll keep pushing to have changed.
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Gaer made her comments following the ribbon cutting ceremony for the state’s first medical producer.