PDF Cannabis: The New Frontier of Impaired Driving

[Pages:95]Cannabis: The New Frontier of Impaired

Driving

Tyson Skeen

Prop 2 and the Utah Medical Cannabis Act

Types of Medical Cannabis Cards

1. Medical Cannabis Patient Card

For own use Must be 21 (unless you're 18, 19, or 20 and they say it's okay...) Utah resident Medical provider recommends cannabis treatment

2. Medical Cannabis Guardian Card

18 years old Utah resident Parent or legal guardian of minor that receives medical cannabis recommendation

Qualifying Conditions

1. HIV or acquired immune deficiency syndrome; 2. Alzheimer's disease; 3. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; 4. Cancer; 5. Cachexia; 6. Persistent nausea that is not significantly responsive to traditional

treatment, except for nausea related to:

1. pregnancy; 2. Cannabis-induced cyclical vomiting syndrome; or 3. Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.

Qualifying Conditions

7. Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis; 8. Epilepsy or debilitating seizures; 9. multiple sclerosis or persistent and debilitating muscle spasms; 10. post-traumatic stress disorder that is being treated and monitored

by a licensed mental health therapist; (with specific requirements) 11. Autism; 12. A terminal illness when the patient's remaining life expectancy is

less than six months;

Qualifying Conditions

13. a condition resulting in the individual receiving hospice care; 14. a rare condition or disease that:

A. affects less than 200,000 individuals in the United States, as defined in Section 526 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; and

B. is not adequately managed despite treatment attempts using:

i. Conventional medications other than opioids or opiates; or ii. Physical interventions;

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