Patients seek to add their conditions to medical marijuana list

HARTFORD, Conn. – Hertz Nazaire, 41, lives with sickle cell disease and while he says he’s never tried marijuana to ease his chronic pain, he hates the narcotics he because they make him dizzy and nauseous. He said he would like medical marijuana to be an option.

“The pain is as strong as any other disease you have on that list,” Nazaire told the state physicians board Wednesday during a public hearing.

Nazaire wants the board to add sickle cell disease to the list of 11 conditions that qualify a patient to receive medical marijuana in Connecticut.

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