(photo credit: Peter Hvizdak – New Haven Register)
David Lipton, managing partner of Advanced Grow Labs, a medical marijuana production facility in West Haven, Connecticut, inspects a one of the best marijuana “mother” plants used to propagate other marijuana plants.
It’s not for nothing that Connecticut is called “The Constitution State.” On Friday, the State Board of Physicians made a move to help facial pain patients with symptoms that don’t meet the strict diagnostic criteria for trigeminal neuralgia or migraine headaches. From the New Haven Register:
The [State Board of Physicians] Friday unanimously voted to add “intractable headache syndromes” and “neuropathic facial pain” to the list of new conditions [in Connecticut’s growing medical marijuana program] pending approval by the legislature. It removed migraine headaches and Trigeminal neuralgia, which had been approved in June because they both have symptoms that fall under the broader term of “intractable headache syndromes.”
The terms “intractable headache syndromes” and “neuropathic facial pain” cover every known variety of chronic facial pain. If you live in Connecticut and you have geniculate neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, occipital neuralgia, cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania, SUNCT, SUNA, or something even rarer than that, your state Board of Physicians is working for you!