The details behind Minnesota law enforcement’s flip-flop on medical marijuana

Only a few months ago, Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom called a press conference to announce that “marijuana is not a medicine.” It may come as a surprise, then, that the Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition recently outlined for lawmakers the perimeters in which they could work with a medical marijuana bill. Backstrom was unavailable for comment, but Pipestone County Sheriff Dan Delaney, another member of the Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition, took our call.
“I’m not a doctor,” Delaney explains, but if the medical community believes this could benefit patients, “Who am I to say that is wrong?”

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