Regulator to consider authorizing pot use for 10 conditions

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan regulator will consider an advisory board's recommendation to add autism and other conditions to a list of allowable medical conditions for the use of marijuana.

The review panel Friday recommended including 10 conditions. They are obsessive compulsive disorder, arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, spinal cord injury, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Parkinson's, Tourette Syndrome, autism and chronic pain.

State Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Director Shelly Edgerton has until July 10 to decide on nine of the recommendations. She has...