{"id":3762,"date":"2016-05-18T04:52:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/18\/congress-stops-medical-marijuana-research-in-its-tracks\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T04:52:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:52:26","slug":"congress-stops-medical-marijuana-research-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/18\/congress-stops-medical-marijuana-research-in-its-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress stops medical marijuana research in its tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While there is increasing evidence that medical marijuana could be a viable alternative to opioids in terms of pain management, a new report<\/a> indicates that Congress is still not prepared to give the scientific community the green light to dig any deeper into this progressive concept<\/p>\n

Earlier last week, the U.S. House Rules Committee voted against two proposed amendments that would have required a special pain management task force to consider how weed might be used as an alternative or in conjunction with prescription painkillers.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Opponents of Florida’s medical marijuana initiative slam legalization<\/a> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While there is increasing evidence that medical marijuana could be a viable alternative to opioids in terms of pain management, a new report indicates that Congress is still not prepared to give the scientific community the green light to dig … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2915,1539,1909,2914,960],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-congress","tag-marijuana","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-painkillers","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}