Health and Fitness, National

Congress Provides Short-Term Extension To Medical Marijuana Protection Provisions

Congress Medical Marijuana Protection ProvisionsWashington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 6, 2016.  Members of Congress have approved a short-term spending bill keeping in place existing budgetary provisions protecting those who engage in the state-sanctioned use and dispensing of medical cannabis from federal prosecution by the Department of Justice.

The amendment, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment, maintains that federal funds cannot be used to prevent states from “implementing their own state laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.”…

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