Parolee sues Minnesota Department of Corrections for barring him from using medical marijuana

By the time Darrell Schmidt of Chaska was released on parole back in 2017, he’d been diagnosed with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, and anxiety.

Schmidt, who had been convicted of illegally keeping a shotgun in his Quonset hut in rural Stewart, Minnesota in 2013, had been prescribed ...