Provides health care practitioners discretion to determine which medical conditions could qualify patients for use of medical cannabis.

This bill (A4938) gives health care practitioners (physicians, advanced practice nurses, and physician assistants) the discretion to determine which medical conditions qualify patients for medical cannabis use, rather than being limited to the specific conditions currently listed in law. It amends the definition of "qualifying medical condition" to include "any other medical condition or disease for which a healthcare practitioner determines that a patient would receive palliative or therapeutic benefit from the use of medical cannabis." This change directly affects patients seeking medical cannabis for conditions not currently authorized and health care practitioners who will determine which conditions qualify. The bill does not change the existing process for obtaining medical cannabis or the requirement that patients must be registered with the Cannabis Regulatory Commission.