Qualifying Conditions for Medical Cannabis in Texas
Medical Marijuana is legal, low-THC medicine that is prescribed by board-certified, registered physicians (like myself)to treat the symptoms of the qualifying conditions in the Compassionate Use Program. In Texas, medical marijuana can contain up to 1% THC by weight. All medical marijuana products in Texas must undergo rigorous testing and analysis to ensure that products are consistent, purely extracted, correctly formulated and dosed, and are free of any toxins or heavy metals.
While there is no age minimum for medical marijuana in Texas, you must meet a few requirements to access it:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurological disease involving the nerve cells that are responsible for muscle movement. ALS usually begins in the hands, feet or limbs, then continues to deteriorate muscle control throughout the body. Early signs of ALS may include muscle stiffness and weakness. Patients living with ALS may also experience muscle cramps, twitches, spasms, slurred speech, difficulty walking, tripping and falling, difficulty sleeping due to pain, and cognitive difficulties. These symptoms can also trigger mental difficulties such as anxiety and depression.
Our ALS patients have reported improvements in muscle cramping, pain management, anxiety, insomnia and overall mobility after taking medical marijuana. Watch our success stories here.
ALS Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
- Muscle cramping and stiffness
- Pain
- Mobility
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Depression
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a covered condition for medical marijuana in Texas that slowly, progressively destroys brain cells over time. The most common symptoms include loss of memory and thinking skills. As the disease progresses, people with AD will lose the ability to perform simple activities of daily living like dressing themselves, toileting and bathing.
Medical marijuana can help produce anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and neurogenic effects in patients. Clinical studies have also reported positive behavioral effects in patients with Alzheimer’s.
AD and Dementia Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
- Appetite loss and weight loss
- Cognitive impairment
- Memory loss
- Neuroinflammation
- Neurodegeneration
- Pain
- Insomnia
- Agitation and behavioral changes
One of the covered conditions for medical marijuana in Texas, Autism is a spectrum disorder that mainly impacts behavior and some physical abilities. While symptoms and severity can vary widely, patients living with Autism usually experience difficulty with communication, difficulty with social interactions, obsessive interests, aggression and repetitive behaviors.
Since the mid 2010s, there have been several noteworthy studies that show CBD and THC helps improve symptoms and co-morbidities.
Autism Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
- Difficulty with social interaction
- Difficulty with speech or communication
- Obsessive or repeated behaviors
- Depression
- Seizures
- Restlessness
- Aggression or disruptive behavior
- Insomnia
Several studies point to the potential benefits of medical marijuana for cancer patients who are experiencing nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, and pain. While research is still ongoing, patients have reported improvements in appetite, nausea and overall quality of life with medical cannabis.
Cancer Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Treat:
- Pain
- Anxiety
- Nausea and vomiting
- Decreased appe
Peripheral neuropathy refers to the conditions that result when nerves that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord from and to the rest of the body are damaged or diseased. The peripheral nerves make up an intricate network that connects the brain and spinal cord to the muscles, skin, and internal organs.
- ADENYLOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE DEFICIENCY
- ALEXANDER DISEASEAMYLOIDOSES
- ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE
- ASPARYLGLUCOSAMINURIA
- ATAXIA NEUROPATHY SPECTRUM
- BIDIRECTIONAL ENZYME DEFICIENCY
- BIOPTERIN DEFECTS
- CANAVAN DISEASE
- CENTRAL CORE
- CEREBRAL AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT ARTERIOPATHY
- CHARCOT MARIE TOOTH AND RELATED HEREDITARY NEUROPATHIES
- CHILDHOOD MYOCEREBROHEPATOPATHY SPECTRUM
- CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF GLYCOSYLATION
- CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION
- CREATINE DISORDERS
- CREATINE TRANSPORTER DEFECT,
- ALSO KNOWN AS SLC 6A8
- DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES
- DEOXYGUANISINE KINASE DEFICIENCY
- DIHYDROPIRIMIDINASE DEFICIENCY
- DIHYDROPTERIDINE REDUCTASE
- DIHYDROPYRIMIDINE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY
- DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
- FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
- FAMILIAL OR SPORADIC FATAL INSOMNIA
- FAMILIAL SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA
- FARBER DISEASE
- FATTY ACID OXIDATION
- FREIDREICH’S ATAXIA
- FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA AND PARKINSONISM
- LINKED TO CHROMOSOME 17 CAUSED BY MUTATIONS IN MAPT GENE
- FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION
- GALACTOSEMIA
- GALACTOSIALIDOSIS
- GAUCHER TYPE 2 AND TYPE 3
- GLOBULAR GLIAL TAUOPATHY
- GLUTARIC ACIDEMIA TYPE 1
- GLYCINE ENCEPHALOPATHY
- ALSO KNOWN AS GM1 GANGLIOSIDOSIS AND SANDHOFF DISEASE
- GUANIDINOACETATE METHYTRANSFERASE DEFICIENCY
- GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE DEFICIENCY
- HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE
- KEARN SAYERS SYNDROME
- KRABBE
- KURU
- LEUKODYSTROPHY
- LEWY BODY DISORDERS
- LYSOSOMAL STORAGE DISEASES
- MANNOSIDOSIS
- MANOSIDOSIS ALPHA AND BETA
- MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE
- METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY
- METAL METABOLISM
- METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE DEFICIENCY SEVERE VARIANT
- MITOCHONDRIAL CONDITIONS
- MITOCHONDRIAL DEPLETION SYNDROMES TYPES 1 THROUGH 14 MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOPATHY LACTIC ACIDOSIS STROKE MITOCHONDRIAL
- ENCEPHALOPATHY RAGGED RED FIBER
- MITOCHONDRIAL NEUROGASTROINTESTINAL ENCEPHALOPATHY MONOAMINE OXIDASE DEFICIENCY
- MOTOR NEURON DISEASE
- MUCOLIPIDOSES
While the cause of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is still unknown, this potentially disabling disease triggers the body’s immune system to attack the central nervous system. MS can trigger a wide range of symptoms for patients including muscle spasms, pain, fatigue, slurred speech, dizziness and anxiety.
Research shows medical marijuana, containing CBD levels equal or higher than THC, have had positive effects on muscle spasticity and pain. The effects of cannabis and its safety have been reviewed by the American Academy of Neurology in a practice guideline. In Texas, MS is a covered condition eligible for medical marijuana.
MS Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
Muscle spasms
Anxiety
Pain
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement and is a covered condition for medical marijuana in Texas. Patients living with Parkinson’s may experience tremors, slowed movements (bradykinesia), rigid muscles, involuntary muscle movements (dyskinesia), impaired posture, spasms and speech changes. Other associated symptoms can include depression, anxiety, hallucinations, sleep disorders and late-stage dementia.
Multiple studies in animal models have demonstrated symptom relief, improvement of treatment-induced dyskinesias, and suggest a role in neuroprotection with various cannabinoid therapies. Parkinson’s patients have reported improvements in pain management, movement, spasms and overall quality of life with cannabis medicine. Check out our patient success stories here.
Parkinson’s Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
- Dyskinesia
- Bradykinesia
- Muscle spasms
- Rigidity
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Pain
Epilepsy, which is eligible for medical marijuana in Texas, is a neurological disorder in which abnormal brain activity causes seizures and disturbances in cognitive functions. Approximately 30 percent of people with epilepsy don’t respond well to conventional treatments, but cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant, has emerged as a promising alternative treatment option.
Research indicates medical marijuana treatments may decrease the frequency of convulsive seizures in some patients living with intractable epilepsy, and numerous patients and caregivers have come forward across the country in recent years reporting positive responses to CBD.
Epilepsy Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
Seizures
Anxiety
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease that causes irreparable brain damage triggered by repeated head traumas. This rare degenerative disease is also one of the many conditions eligible for medical marijuana in Texas. As the disease progresses, patients may experience changes in their mood and behavior, memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, depression, aggression, insomnia and eventually progressive dementia.
CTE Symptoms Medical Marijuana Can Relieve:
Spasticity is a condition in which muscles stiffen or tighten, preventing normal fluid movement. The muscles remain contracted and resist being stretched, thus affecting movement, speech and gait.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, or rape or who have been threatened with death, sexual violence or serious injury.
In recent clinical studies, people suffering from posttraumatic distress disorder have reported that cannabis can reduce the severity of their symptoms.
- MUCOLIPIDOSES TYPE III, ALSO KNOWN AS MUCOPOLYSACCARIDOSIS
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE I
- KNOWN AS HURLER SYNDROME OR SCHEIE SYNDROME
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE II
- ALSO KNOWN AS HUNTER SYNDROME
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE III
- ALSO KNOWN AS SANFILIPPO A AND B
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE IV
- ALSO KNOWN AS MAROTEAUX-LAMY
- MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE VII, ALSO KNOWN AS SLY
- MULTIPLE SULFATASE DEFICIENCY
- MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY
- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES
- MYOCLONIC EPILEPSY MYOPATHY SENSORY ATAXIA
- NEIMANN PICK TYPE A AND B
- NEIMANN PICK TYPE C
- NEONATAL ADRENOLEUKODYSTROPHY
- NEURODEGENERATION WITH BRAIN IRON ACCUMULATION
- NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE DEMENTIA,
- ALSO KNOWN BATTEN DISEASE
- NEUROPATHY, ATAXIA, AND RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA
- NEUROTRANSMITTER DEFECTS
- LIGOSACCHARIDOSES
- PANTOTHENATE KINASE ASSOCIATED NEURODEGENERATION
- PARKINSON’S DISEASE
- PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY TYPES 1 THROUGH 4
- PEROXISOMAL BIOSYNTHESIS DEFECTS
- PEROXISOMAL DISORDERS
- PICK DISEASE
- POLYMERASE G RELATED DISORDERS
- POLYOL DISORDERS
- PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS
- PRION DISEASES
- PROGRESSIVE CHOREAS
- DYSTONIAS DYT GENES 1 THROUGH 20
- PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY
- PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY
- PURINE AND PYRIMIDINE DEFECTS
- PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE DEFICIENCY
- PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY
- REFSUM DISEASE
- RESPIRATORY CHAIN DISORDERS COMPLEX 1 THROUGH 4 DEFECTS: COQ BIOSYNTHESIS DEFECTS
- SALIDOSIS
- SCHINDLER
- SEGAWA DISEASE
- ALSO KNOWN AS DOPAMINE RESPONSIVE DYSTONIA
- SEPIAPTERIN REDUCTASE
- SIALIDOSIS
- SPHINGOLIPIDOSES
- SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY
- SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA
- SUBACUTE NECROTIZING ENCEPHALOPATHY,
- ALSO KNOWN AS LEIGH SYNDROME
- ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIC FORM WITH METHYLMALONIC ACIDURIA SYNUCLEINOPATHIES
- TAUOPATHIES
- THYMIDINE KINASE
- PROTEINOPATHIES
- TRIFUNCTIONAL PROTEIN DEFICIENCY
- NEUROTRANSMITTER DEFECTS VASCULAR DEMENTIA
- NEUROTRANSMITTER DEFECTS WILSON DISEASE
- NEUROTRANSMITTER DEFECTS ZELLWEGER SYNDROME
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