Minnesota Officials Expand Medical Marijuana Program
ST. PAUL, MN State health regulators in Minnesota havedecidedto expand the states medical cannabisprogramto include patients diagnosed with autism and sleep apnea.
Advocates petitionedhealth officialsto add the two new qualifications, as well as several other diagnoses such as anxiety that regulators ultimately rejected.
Health officials also denied requests to expand the program to permit patients to access whole-plant cannabis or edibles. Under existing law, qualified patients may only ...
