Aloha Alliance,

The Hawaii State Department of Health today released its December 2017 newsletter, Medical Cannabis Update. In the one-page newsletter, the department reports that a third private laboratory is scheduled to submit its pesticide validation studies and an onsite laboratory inspection, and DOH announced that it has added ALS to its list of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis patients. DOH rejected the petition to add General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as a qualifying condition stating, “there is inconclusive medical evidence that cannabis has beneficial use in the treatment or alleviation of symptoms of anxiety, social phobia, and Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), and no evidence specific to GAD.”

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