This is a WIN for sanity! Cook County Judge Neil Cohen has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to add Post-Operative Chronic Pain, or CPOP, to the list of disorders treatable with medical cannabis. He also scheduled a hearing for November 3, “to ensure the Director’s compliance with this order.”
This is the second time this year the Judge has ordered the Health Department to add a disorder to the list; in June, he did the same thing for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.
YES!
Both conditions had been recommended by the Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, but the Health Department had balked. Illinois is one of the few states that don’t allow the use of cannabis for the treatment of pain.
Pharmacann General Counsel Jeremy Unruh, said, “I think it’s a shame that we’re having to push the governor’s office, particularly the Department of Public Health, into opening these conditions up. I think it’s time that administration sort of understand that the state is supportive of a responsible, measured expansion of this program.”
Source: NBC Chicago
