Minnesotato Add Intractable Pain to Medical Marijuana Access List
As of July 1, 2016, health care practitioners may begin certifying pain patients
As of July 1, 2016, health care practitioners may begin certifying pain patients
On Wednesday, December 2, the Minnesota Department of Health announced that intractable pain patients would be added to the list of those allowed to access medical Cannabis in the state. The state's medical marijuana program only covers administration of the drug in oil or pill form and was launched this past July. A year later, medical professionals treating severe pain patients will be allowed to begin certifying them as such; these patients would be able to receive medical pot as early as August of 2016. Intractable pain would be the tenth ailment covered by Minnesota's medi-weed program, on top of the nine original illnesses that comprised last year's legislation. The original qualifying conditions include, according to the website:- Cancer associated with severe/chronic pain, nausea or severe vomiting, or cachexia or severe wasting
- Glaucoma
- HIV and AIDS
- Tourette syndrome
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy
- Severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis
- Crohn's disease
- Terminal illness, with a probable life expectancy of less than one year*
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