{"id":14715,"date":"2015-05-13T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2015-05-13T16:10:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:10:53","slug":"marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Illinois advisory board recommends expanding medical marijuana coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Avinash Chak<\/p>\n<p>Cancer, HIV\/AIDS and Alzheimer\u2019s are a few of the diseases that qualify patients for medical marijuana usage in Illinois. The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board now recommends that those with 11 other conditions get the chance to benefit from marijuana prescriptions. The board, however, rejected other conditions commonly associated with medicinal marijuana in its vote May 4.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board\u2019s recommendations now need the approval of the state\u2019s public health department.\u00a0Legislators could then write new regulations for Illinois\u2019 marijuana law.\u00a0It could take months before the conditions become part of the official list.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Illinois advisory board recommends expanding medical marijuana coverage\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127675146?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Bongs on display at E-Cigs Loop store (Avinash Chak\/Medill)<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/cantv.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8953\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/CAN-TV-logo.jpg\" alt=\"CAN TV logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cantv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEDILL REPORTS<br \/>\nON CAN TV<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In Chicago, watch Medill Reports video stories on CAN-TV channel 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Avinash Chak Cancer, HIV\/AIDS and Alzheimer\u2019s are a few of the diseases that qualify patients for medical marijuana usage in Illinois. The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board now recommends that those with 11 other conditions get the chance to benefit from marijuana prescriptions. The board, however, rejected other conditions commonly associated with medicinal marijuana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":14718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,436],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-health-and-science","category-spring-2015"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VIDEO: Illinois advisory board recommends expanding medical marijuana coverage - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/marijuana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO: Illinois advisory board recommends expanding medical marijuana coverage - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Avinash Chak Cancer, HIV\/AIDS and Alzheimer\u2019s are a few of the diseases that qualify patients for medical marijuana usage in Illinois. 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