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Minnesota Marijuana Legalization Update: Medical Pot Program Expands To Include Patients With Chronic Pain http://www.ibtimes.com/minnesota-marijuana-legalization-update-medical-pot-program-expands-include-patients-2208401 Minnesota next summer will open its medical marijuana program to patients who experience chronic pain, state Department of Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger said Wednesday, according to the Star Tribune. The decision could add thousands of patients to the state’s program, which […]

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Dear Friends of Mark Ibsen,   I am truly saddened over the deplorable situations in Montana and Washington. Dr. Ibsen was a most caring, competent physician. If the government didn’t approve of his practice, they could have gotten him special training and supervision. We simply can’t take care of worthy, suffering patients only with interventionalists, […]

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The making of a college drug informant http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/confidential-informants-part-1/ http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/confidential-informants-part-2/ College students talk with Lesley Stahl about how they were pressured into becoming confidential informants. Lesley Stahl reports on law enforcement’s controversial use of young confidential informants in the war on drugs, some of whose cases ended tragically.    

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US PAIN FOUNDATION ASKS PATIENTS; “WHAT SHOULD WE BE WORKING ON?” Posted on December 4, 2015 in Other with 2 Comments The nation’s leading consumer pain organization is asking pain patients about the issues facing them. “We are going to use the results to help develop our best course of action and to prioritize which […]

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