Starting today — August 1, 2020 — Minnesotans with chronic pain qualify for medical cannabis!
Qualifying patients whose healthcare providers are willing to certify them for the medical cannabis program can enroll through the Department of Health.
Until today, pain only qualified if it was “intractable,” meaning its “cause cannot be removed” and “the full range of [appropriate] pain management modalities … has been used without adequate result or with intolerable side effects.” Expanding the program…