{"id":5521,"date":"2016-02-10T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/?p=46835"},"modified":"2016-02-10T02:55:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:55:57","slug":"iowa-some-republicans-announce-support-for-medical-marijuana-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/iowa-some-republicans-announce-support-for-medical-marijuana-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa: Some Republicans Announce Support for Medical Marijuana Bill"},"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\/iowa-some-republicans-announce-support-for-medical-marijuana-bill\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 Some Republican House lawmakers are supporting legislation that would create a system for manufacturing, distributing and possessing some forms of medical marijuana in Iowa, though it&#8217;s unclear what type of support the bill will get from party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would expand the state&#8217;s current law on medical marijuana, which allows some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.com\/blog\/news\/2014\/07\/iowas-medical-marijuana-law-to-treat-epilepsy-goes-into-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\">epilepsy patients to use cannabis oil<\/a>. The new legislation would expand it to include more products and patients, though it would prohibit the smoking of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Peter Cownie, chairman of the House Commerce Committee, discussed the bill during a press conference Tuesday while surrounded by a handful of Republican lawmakers. The West Des Moines Republican was vague when asked about the bill&#8217;s support within his caucus. He asked lawmakers to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) \u2014 Some Republican House lawmakers are supporting legislation that would create a system for manufacturing, distributing and possessing some forms of medical marijuana in Iowa, though it&#8217;s unclear what type of support the bill will get from party leaders. The bill would expand the state&#8217;s current law on medical marijuana, which [&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[896,2437,5115,9,227,1,3],"tags":[3467,2443,5116,2805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521"}],"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=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}