{"id":18892,"date":"2017-08-25T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/congressmen-question-dojs-decision-to-halt-cannabis-research\/"},"modified":"2017-08-26T00:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T08:43:27","slug":"congressmen-question-dojs-decision-to-halt-cannabis-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/congressmen-question-dojs-decision-to-halt-cannabis-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressmen question DOJ\u2019s decision to halt cannabis research"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A group of congressmen from states with legal medical or recreational marijuana programs sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions challenging the Department of Justice\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/08\/23\/dea-marijuana-research-congressmen-question-sessions\/86634\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">move to stop researching cannabis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Denver Post, Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colorado; Matt Gaetz, R-Florida; Dana Rohrabacher, R-California; and Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, cited a Washington Post report that the Justice Department halted plans that would have allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/report-govt-to-make-marijuana-research-easier-but-not-reschedule-cannabis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more marijuana research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.massroots.com\/news\/lawmakers-tell-sessions-to-stop-blocking-marijuana-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The letter<\/a> \u2013 first\u00a0obtained by Tom Angell\u00a0of MassRoots \u2013 also cited a Scientific American report that more than two dozen entities<\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/lawmakers-letter-questions-dojs-decision-halt-cannabis-research\/\">Congressmen question DOJ\u2019s decision to halt cannabis research<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/lawmakers-letter-questions-dojs-decision-halt-cannabis-research\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congressmen question DOJ\u2019s decision to halt cannabis research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of congressmen from states with legal medical or recreational marijuana programs sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions challenging the Department of Justice\u2019s move to stop researching cannabis. According to the Denver Post, Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colorado; Matt Gaetz, R-Florida; Dana Rohrabacher, R-California; and Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/congressmen-question-dojs-decision-to-halt-cannabis-research\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,28,14,1348,1349,46,1350,96,10,257],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18893,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions\/18893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}