Minnesota Medical Marijuana Postponed

 Minnesota residents suffering chronic pain won’t be able to get medical marijuana until summer 2016 at the earliest.

Supporters of medical marijuana had once hoped to add chronic pain to the eligible conditions as early as this summer.

But state officials say they will wait to make that decision partly due to concern that it could overextend manufacturers as they rush to launch the program this summer.

There’s no assurance that chronic pain will ever be a legal reason to use medical marijuana.