Alana Muller is twenty-seven and has suffered from Lyme disease and epilepsy for the last 12 years. She became sick of having to take so many medications to treat both of her conditions. Two months ago, Muller decided to try something new so that she wouldn’t need to load herself with pills. She decided to try medical marijuana.
“I was always in pain. I couldn’t focus. I was always tired. I also get migraines,” she stated. “Since starting medical marijuana I’ve been able to cut down my seizure medication. Instead of taking six pills a day, I only take three. It (medical marijuana) helps me focus, and alleviates my pain from neuropathy.”
Muller was not able to receive medical marijuana for Lyme disease since it isn’t approved by the state to receive medical marijuana. However, luckily for her, epilepsy is one of the drugs on the list. Here are some of the other diseases that the state has approved to receive medical marijuana: cancer, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Parkinson’s disease, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis, cancer, HIV/AIDS, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies and Huntington’s disease.
Mueller is one of the many in New York who has been able to be relieved because of the Compassionate Care Act, which was signed into law in July 2014. However, it was not put into play until January of 2016. At first, the medical marijuana program was shaky because it was tough to approve doctors for the program. However, there are now six hundred physicians statewide who are registered in the program. The Health Department states that five months have passed, but 5,066 patients have already joined the program.
“The beneficial aspect that has been shown in literature is that it stimulates appetite so it’s for people with HIV or who are undergoing chemotherapy for cancer,” Dr. Azher Siddiqi, of the Dongan Hills-based Staten Island Medical Practice Associate, P.C, said. “It also helps people with recurrent seizures by reducing the amount of seizures. It helps people with multiple sclerosis to reduce spasticity and relieve pain.”
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