{"id":19170,"date":"2017-09-07T07:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/house-committee-blocks-votes-on-medical-marijuana-protections\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:58:45","slug":"house-committee-blocks-votes-on-medical-marijuana-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/house-committee-blocks-votes-on-medical-marijuana-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"House committee blocks votes on medical marijuana protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives\u2019 Rules Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/09\/06\/house-rules-committee-rejects-marijuana-amendments-spending-bill-2\/87472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has blocked floor votes<\/a> on several key amendments that protect medical marijuana from federal interference.<\/p>\n<p>The late Wednesday night maneuver doesn\u2019t kill the protections, but it does show that marijuana opponents have not given up efforts to reverse legalization and kill the industry, The Cannabist reported.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments \u2013 including the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer Amendment (previously known as Rohrabacher-Farr), which prohibits the Justice Department from using federal dollars to go after medical marijuana programs \u2013 had been included on a federal appropriations bill. Congressional lawmakers have passed the amendments every year since 2014.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/house-rules-committee-blocks-votes-medical-marijuana-protections\/\">House committee blocks votes on medical marijuana protections<\/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\/house-rules-committee-blocks-votes-medical-marijuana-protections\/\" target=\"_blank\">House committee blocks votes on medical marijuana protections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives\u2019 Rules Committee has blocked floor votes on several key amendments that protect medical marijuana from federal interference. The late Wednesday night maneuver doesn\u2019t kill the protections, but it does show that marijuana opponents have not given up efforts to reverse legalization and kill the industry, The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/house-committee-blocks-votes-on-medical-marijuana-protections\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,83,1503,10,29,700],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19171,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19170\/revisions\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}