{"id":20858,"date":"2017-11-03T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:41:39","slug":"white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"White House rejects medical marijuana as opioid alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>In a move that brought scathing condemnation from a Florida Republican congressman, the White House\u2019s commission on the opioid epidemic has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2017\/11\/01\/white-house-opioid-commission-calls-for-wide-ranging-changes-to-anti-drug-policies\/?utm_term=.65474a104191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected calls to support medical marijuana<\/a> as an alternative for pain patients.<\/p>\n<p>The commission \u201cspecifically declined to endorse the use of marijuana for pain,\u201d The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the commission\u2019s chair, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, drew parallels between the opioid epidemic and the growing popularity of medical cannabis, a statement that U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-FL, called \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Positive endorsements likely would have led to increased interest in medical marijuana and, possibly, sales<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-opioid-alternative\/\">White House rejects medical marijuana as opioid alternative<\/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\/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-opioid-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House rejects medical marijuana as opioid alternative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that brought scathing condemnation from a Florida Republican congressman, the White House\u2019s commission on the opioid epidemic has rejected calls to support medical marijuana as an alternative for pain patients. The commission \u201cspecifically declined to endorse the use of marijuana for pain,\u201d The Washington Post reported. In<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/white-house-rejects-medical-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,2265,2266,2267,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20859,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions\/20859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}