Ask your lawmakers to support a comprehensive medical marijuana program! On Friday, November 1, the board that oversees Iowa’s low-THC medical cannabis program recommended adding PTSD and intellectual disability with aggression to the program’s list of qualifying conditions. Now, the Iowa Board of Medicine must agree with these additions before they are added.Expanding the list of qualifying conditions is an important victory for some patients. Unfortunately, the board rejected adding opioid dependency…

Yesterday, the Minnesota Department of Health approved adding Alzheimer’s disease as a qualifying condition for medical cannabis, but rejected opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, traumatic brain injury, and insomnia. Many thanks to Sensible Minnesota and to all the advocates and health professionals who were involved in petitioning to expand the program! Their dedicated work (with an assist from MPP) also resulted in the addition of intractable pain, PTSD, autism, and sleep apnea. Under state law,…

Please consider voicing your support for expanding Minnesota’s medical marijuana program!  On Wednesday, a medical marijuana review panel will meet to discuss the petitions to add opioid use disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, panic disorder, and psoriasis as qualifying conditions to the state’s medical cannabis program. What: Public meeting on adding conditions, including an opportunity for public comment When: Wednesday, October 24, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Where: Room 300N, State Office Building, 100…