The Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Medical Cannabis Condition Review Panel met on Thursday, August 24th in St. Paul, MN to discuss the petitions they received for the addition of Qualifying Medical Conditions to Minnesota Medical Cannabis Law. The meeting went really well and there were several community members in attendance. The Review Panel consists [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/29/2016 Sensible Minnesota Supporting Petitions for Whole Flower and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Department of Health allows for petitions to add new conditions and ingestion methods to be submitted between June 1st and July 31st of each year. Sensible Minnesota, working with patients, providers, researchers, and other organizations, is supporting [...]
Sensible Minnesota is supporting a petition to add Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to the list of qualifying conditions in Minnesota. The petitioning process involves providing detailed information on the condition, as well as documented research on the benefits of treatment with cannabis. Maren Schroeder of Sensible Minnesota has been working diligently, with the help of volunteers, [...]
Sensible Minnesota is currently supporting two petitions for expansion of medical cannabis availability in Minnesota. The first petition is to add Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a qualifying condition, and the second petition is to add whole plant cannabis as an ingestion method (to be vaporized or juiced). We are asking patients with [...]
Here's what we know so far for tomorrow's hearing at 9am: The notice given for the hearing is uploaded here: https://sensible.mn/owncloud/index.php/s/fVpvyD4NTLtupDq The general procedure for administrative rules hearings are outlined in Minnesota Rules 1400.2210: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/?id=1400.2210 The original letter requesting a hearing is pasted below: Dear Commissioner Ehlinger, I write, as a concerned citizen with regard to the [...]
We are pleased to announce that the Minnesota Department of Health and the Office of Medical Cannabis have amended their proposed rules to shorten the timeline for adding new qualifying conditions and delivery methods. Sensible Minnesota called for this change because the original proposed rules would have allowed a two year delay between the time [...]
Today, Sensible Minnesota has received information from the Office of Medical Cannabis indicating 164 patients have received letters asking why they stopped purchasing medical cannabis from approved manufacturers. A mere two months ago, this number was 92 letters sent, meaning that patients continue to leave the program at a steady rate. Minnesota's program has faltered [...]
Minnesotans! MDH wants to make their proposed rules permanent, but there are some serious issues with them! Please send the pasted letter below (with your name and address signed at the bottom) to: [email protected] by 4:30pm on December 16, 2015. That's Wednesday!! Thank you!! Dear Commissioner Ehlinger, I write, as a concerned citizen with regard [...]
MDH to add intractable pain as qualifying condition for state medical cannabis program http://www.health.state.mn.us/news/pressrel/2015/cannabis120215.html Minnesota Commissioner of Health Dr. Ed Ehlinger today announced his decision to add intractable pain as a qualifying condition for Minnesota’s medical cannabis program. He also called upon the state’s health care community to boost efforts to help patients deal with [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12/2/2015 Contact: Maren Schroeder maren[at]sensible.mn (Rochester and General Questions) Kurtis Hanna kurtis[at]sensible.mn (Twin Cities) Sensible Minnesota Response to Commissioner’s Decision on Intractable Pain St. Paul, MN: We want to thank Commissioner Ehlinger for showing compassion to some struggling Minnesotans. Commissioner Ehlinger’s decision to add intractable pain as a qualifying condition for the Minnesota Medical [...]
