{"id":10572,"date":"2018-07-12T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2018-07-12T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:12:03","slug":"hawaii-governor-vetoes-bill-allowing-mmj-for-opioid-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/2018\/07\/12\/hawaii-governor-vetoes-bill-allowing-mmj-for-opioid-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing MMJ for Opioid Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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via Daily Chronic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this week,\u00a0<\/span>Hawaii Gov. David Ige<\/strong>, a Democrat, vetoed state\u00a0Senate Bill 2407<\/a>,\u00a0which would have allowed for the treatment of opioid addiction with medical cannabis.<\/p>\n

Per\u00a0Marijuana.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gov. Ige announced his rationale for the veto on Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Health already has a formal evidenced-based petition process, made available annually to patients and physicians, so patients and physicians can apply to add qualifying conditions to the list of uses for medical cannabis.\u201d \u2014 Hawaii Gov. David Ige, via\u00a0Hawaii.gov<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The process of approval by the Department of Health can take up to a year and requires the submission of a lengthy, evidence-based petition.<\/strong>\u00a0Some wanted quicker, direct action through SB2407. Lawmakers had apparently agreed with that sentiment, as the bill passed both sections of\u00a0Hawaii<\/a>\u2018s state legislature with just minor amendments by April, after which it sat on the governor\u2019s desk without action for months.<\/em><\/p>\n

In June, Gov. Ige filed his intent to veto, which culminated in an actual veto on Tuesday despite pleas for the governor to reconsider.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week,\u00a0Hawaii Gov. David Ige, a Democrat, vetoed state\u00a0Senate Bill 2407,\u00a0which would have allowed for the treatment of opioid addiction with medical cannabis. Per\u00a0Marijuana.com Gov. Ige announced his rationale for the veto on Tuesday. \u201cThe Department of Health already has a formal evidenced-based petition process, made available annually to patients and physicians, so patients […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[828,6],"tags":[3320,1001,815,1951],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10576,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/10576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cashcolorcannabis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}