COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The state medical board is reviewing petitions asking that opioid addiction, autism, depression and other conditions be treated with medical marijuana use in Ohio.

Cannabis products are becoming available in Ohio dispensaries over the next few months following delays in rolling out the program last year.

Patients need a physician’s recommendation to buy medical marijuana from such dispensaries to treat allowable conditions, which currently include AIDS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cancer, epilepsy and several other maladies.

The state now has 374 physicians who are certified to recommend medical marijuana to their patients. There are 3,575 patients who are now registered with recommendations.

At a meeting of the medical board’s Medical Marijuana Expert Review Committee Wednesday, members considered 110 petitions submitted from residents around the state. Most were rejected because they failed to meet the requirements or were petitioning for conditions already covered by state law.

The new conditions that will be considered and reviewed are: Opioid use disorder, depression, insomnia, anxiety disorder and autism.

Those petitions will now be reviewed by experts for possible recommendation of inclusion on the list of allowable conditions.

Decisions on new conditions should come within six months.

Meanwhile, the first sales of medical marijuana could come later this month.

Only one medical marijuana dispensary has been certified to operate in the state so far. It’s located in Wintersville in Jefferson County.