Tennessee Code Title 68. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection § 68-7-101

(A) Means a program that authorizes the licensing or regulation of the cultivation, processing, shipping, or distribution of cannabis for medical use; and

(B) Does not include a four-year public or private institution of higher education operating pursuant to § 39-17-402(16)(E);

(A) Alzheimer's disease;

(B) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS);

(C) Cancer, when such disease is diagnosed as end stage or the treatment produces related wasting illness, recalcitrant nausea and vomiting, or pain;

(D) Inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis;

(E) Epilepsy or seizures;

(F) Multiple sclerosis;

(G) Parkinson's disease;

(H) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); or

(I) Sickle cell disease; and

(A) Attests that the patient has a qualifying medical disease or condition;

(B) Specifies the patient's qualifying medical disease or condition;

(C) Attests that the patient has received conventional methods of treatment for the patient's qualifying medical disease or condition and those methods have insufficiently addressed the patient's disease or condition, or symptoms of the disease or condition; and

(D) Is only valid six (6) months from the date of the practitioner's signature, or to a date certain that is less than six (6) months from the date of the signature if specified by the practitioner.