A Minnesota doctor believes medical cannabis can help those struggling with opioid addiction and prevent future overdoses. Vireo Health’s Dr. Kyle Kingsley says cannabis is not killing people like opioids and it is not as addicting. Kingsley says in order to break the addiction, it is recommended that a patient slowly weenes off opioids then […]
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Minnesota Expands Medical Marijuana Use to Pain Patients
After months of deliberation, Minnesota health officials announced that residents with chronic and intractable pain will be allowed to use medical marijuana starting this August. Read article here: High Times
Hemp Harvested In Minnesota For 1st Time
Hemp has been legally harvested in Minnesota for the first time in more than 60 years. A new state law passed this year allows researchers from the University of Minnesota to collect wild hemp. Researchers scoured the overgrown grounds at Fort Snelling Wednesday and cut some wild hemp. Dr. George Weiblen has been studying hemp […]
Minnesota: Sick, Dying, And Waiting For Doctors
Kathleen and Rick Blake lost their 8-year-old son Michael to leukemia in 1988, four years after his diagnosis. Last year, their family was again struck by cancer when doctors diagnosed their daughter Jessica with glioblastoma multiforme, a brain tumor. Determined to help Jessica, the Blakes want her to start taking medical cannabis in July, when […]
Medical Marijuana Will Be Available At Minnesota Hospitals
During the final days of the 2015 regular legislative session, state lawmakers amended Minnesota’s medical cannabis statute to address patients’ use of medical cannabis in hospitals and other health care facilities. The amendment extends protections and immunities to employees of health care facilities to possess medical cannabis while carrying out their employment duties. These protections […]
Is Minnesota Ready to Legalize Pot?
Public Policy Polling has released a survey commissioned by MinnesotaNORMLfrom January 18-21, 2015, that provides some keen insight on the potential for legalization in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Read article here: High Times
Minnesota Mom Faces Jail Over CBD Oil
Read and listen to the tale of one Minnesota mother who tried to procure life-saving CBD oil for her sick child, and now faces jail time for her effort. Read article here: High Times
Cops Cripple Minnesota and Louisiana Medical Marijuana Bills
As the people become more aware and more supportive of medical marijuana, legislators sometimes find it difficult to translate rising popular support into political will. Established lobbies representing law enforcement and other interests threatened by medical mari… High Times
Minnesota to Legalize Without Medical Marijuana First?
Some state is going to eventually become the first one to legalize adult recreational use of marijuana without first legalizing medical use. If RandyQuastand MinnesotaNORMLhave their way, it will be Minnesota. High Times
Minnesota Grower’s Honesty Earns a Felony Charge
A 73-year-old grower faces felony charges in Minnesota for coming clean about growing. High Times