Minnesota: Medical Marijuana Is Helping, Patients Say, but It's Unaffordable
Most patients enrolled in Minnesota's medical marijuana program believe the medication is helping them, but a majority also think it's unaffordable, according to a Minnesota Department of Health survey.
About 90 percent of patients surveyed by the agency saw some benefit from the medical marijuana, with about half of patients giving the medication the highest marks possible, saying they'd received a "great deal of benefit."
"They feel like they've benefited quite substantially," said Tom Arneson, research manager at the Minnesota Department of Health. "Although a small but important proportion feel like they have not received much benefit at all from the medical cannabis, which is really something that does not surprise me too much — it's not going to be helpful to everyone."
Almost three-quarters of surveyed medical marijuana patients said that the biggest drawback of the state's program is that it's unaffordable.
"It is expensive and unaffordable for many...
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