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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Chronic pain patients plead for access to medical marijuana 🌿Chronic pain patients plead for access to medical marijuana
Having cancer is a good enough reason to legally take marijuana in Minnesota. Same with epilepsy or AIDS.
But pain so severe it can drive a person to suicide? No way.
That's the No. 1 problem with the state's new medical marijuana law, according to testimony at a hearing Friday at the state Capitol.
"Please add intractable pain to the list," said Jennessa Lea of St. Paul, a single mom who suffers from a body-deterioration condition.
She was one of 12 people who addressed the Task Force on Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research. The group met to hear public feedback about the medical marijuana law, which went into effect July 1.
Since then marijuana pills and extracts have been made by two companies -- LeafLine Labs of Cottage Grove and Minnesota Medical Solutions of Minneapolis. The marijuana is being sold in dispensaries in Minneapolis, Eagan and Rochester.
The state Department of...
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