{"id":4164,"date":"2015-05-16T03:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2015-05-16T03:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:52:13","slug":"family-relocates-to-colorado-for-legal-cannabis-says-new-tennessee-bill-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/family-relocates-to-colorado-for-legal-cannabis-says-new-tennessee-bill-falls-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Relocates To Colorado For Legal Cannabis, Says New Tennessee Bill Falls Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/family-relocates-to-colorado-for-legal-cannabis-says-new-tennessee-bill-falls-flat\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>A medical marijuana bill signed into law in Tennessee is not adequately benefiting many of the patients it&#8217;s intended to help.<\/p>\n<p>Some Tennessee families that moved to Colorado for medical marijuana say the bill&#8217;s limitations keep them from being able to move back.<\/p>\n<p>This is true for Millie Mattison.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-year-old has battled Epilepsy her entire life. Before medical marijuana, she was having 300 seizures a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if she would be here. That probably is the scariest thought. We highly suspect that she would not have made it,&#8221; says Millie&#8217;s mother, Nicole Mattison.<\/p>\n<p>The Mattison family sold their business and moved their family last year from Tennessee to Colorado, where Millie&#8217;s medicine is legal. They&#8217;ve waited for Tennessee to follow suit, and Monday, Governor Bill Haslam signed it into law, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>But the bill only allows a small portion of Tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly known as THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Millie requires a much higher dosage, keeping the family in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would love to come back. Unfortunately, it would just require a larger bill. It would need to be more encompassing,&#8221; says Mattison.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Todd Gardenhire is a co-sponsor of the cannabis oil bill, which allow patients to bring cannabis oil into Tennessee for treatment, but only if it is legally obtained elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>He says it&#8217;s unlikely they&#8217;ll make changes to those limitations anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s an appetite to do that. We want to see how this works first,&#8221; says Sen. Gardenhire.<\/p>\n<p>Millie&#8217;s mother says the next step should be legalizing medical marijuana in its entirety to help so many more patients who need it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many people can benefit from this product. It&#8217;s a little disheartening knowing that others can&#8217;t, but I&#8217;m glad at least a portion of patients will be able to benefit,&#8221; says Mattison.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also creates a misdemeanor offense for possession of cannabis oil without proof that it was obtained legally.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/gallery\/data\/1412\/8665.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Jacob Redmond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel9.com\/news\/top-stories\/stories\/family-relocates-co-legal-cannabis-says-new-tn-bill-falls-flat-16963.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">WTVC NewsChannel 9 :: News &#8211; Top Stories &#8211; Family Relocates To CO For Legal Cannabis, Says New Tenn. Bill Falls Flat<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Kelsey Bagwell<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel9.com\/station\/\" target=\"_blank\">WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: None Found<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WTVC NewsChannel 9: Chattanooga News, Weather, Radar, Sports, Lottery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical marijuana bill signed into law in Tennessee is not adequately benefiting many of the patients it&#8217;s intended to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2015\/05\/family-relocates-to-colorado-for-legal-cannabis-says-new-tennessee-bill-falls-flat\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1614,9,1,3],"tags":[4182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}