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  • MDH survey: most PTSD patients using medical cannabis report benefits

    Jul 19, 2019

    A recent survey by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) Office of Medical Cannabis found nearly three-quarters of patients using medical cannabis for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reported a high level of benefit. MDH researchers surveyed 751 patients who listed PTSD as a qualifying condition when enrolling in the state’s medical cannabis program during the five months after PTSD became an approved condition for medical cannabis use in Minnesota. Most of the patients surveyed saw benefits based both on the MDH survey and a v...

  • Community Health Day Youth Co-ed Softball Tournament

    Jul 19, 2019

    Community Health Day Youth Co-ed Softball Tournament Ages: 8-13 and 13-18 Friday, July 26, 2019 Red Lake Fields For more information, contact: Chris Jourdain @ 218-553-1490 Randy Holthusen @ 218-407-2875 Sponsored by the Red Lake Comprehensive Health Services...

  • Sanders Statement on House Passage of $15 Minimum Wage

    Jul 19, 2019

    WASHINGTON, July 18 — Senator Sanders released the following statement on the passage of the Raise the Wage Act of 2019 in the House of Representatives: “Four years ago, when I first introduced legislation to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour it was considered an impossible dream. “But today, thanks to a strong grassroots movement led by millions of fast food workers and the SEIU, the United States House of Representatives just voted to approve legislation to raise the federal minimum wage from the starvation wage of $7.25 an hour to a...

  • What You Need To Know About The 2020 Census

    Jul 19, 2019

    The federal government is getting ready to ask some personal questions for the 2020 census. By next April 1, the Census Bureau plans to send a letter or a door knocker to every U.S. household. It's part of a once-a-decade tradition of counting every person living in the U.S. Each national head count usually comes with a rash of confusion. The 2020 census will be the first in the U.S. since the rise of social media. The government has already begun preparing to combat disinformation campaigns...

  • Data show many companies contributed to US opioid crisis

    Jul 19, 2019

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The maker of OxyContin has been cast as the chief villain in the nation's opioid crisis. But newly released government figures suggest Purdue Pharma had plenty of help in flooding the U.S. with billions of pills even as overdose deaths were accelerating. Records kept by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration show that 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pills — the vast majority of them generics, not brand names — were shipped to U.S. pharmacies from 2006 to 2012. https://www.wcpo.com/money/angies-lis...

  • Waywayseecappo reaches $288M settlement with Ottawa over forced surrender of their lands

    Jul 19, 2019

    A Manitoba First Nation has reached a $288-million settlement with the federal government based on a historic claim over the forced removal of 30 square miles of traditional land more than a century ago. The citizens of Waywayseecappo First Nation voted in favour of the pact, with 92 per cent of the 951 voters casting their support on Monday. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/waywayseecappo-first-nation-288-million-settlement-ottawa-forced-surrender-1.5215900...