A victory for patients

On Jan. 12, Cook County Circuit Judge Raymond Mitchell ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health, against its wishes, to add “intractable pain” as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana use. See Mednick v. Illinois Department of Public Health, 17 CH 6032. This was a huge victory for medical marijuana patients, eight days after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions dropped a proverbial …

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