{"id":7269,"date":"2017-03-09T03:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2017-03-09T03:16:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:16:39","slug":"gop-governors-to-trump-its-too-late-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/gop-governors-to-trump-its-too-late-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Governors To Trump \u2013 It\u2019s Too Late To Turn Back The Clock On Medical Marijuana"},"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\/gop-governors-to-trump-its-too-late-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-medical-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Despite the Trump administration\u2019s proposed crackdown on recreational marijuana, some Republicans are coming to terms with the fact that medical weed is here and it\u2019s not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Department of Justice announced plans for greater federal enforcement of laws against recreational pot use last month. Over the weekend, Republican lawmakers convened in Washington, D.C. to meet with the Trump administration about just that. \u201cI want to see the details to what the administration is talking about,\u201d Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV) told the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then I don\u2019t know how you distinguish between medical and recreational, at least based on a federal law enforcement perspective, at least as the law is written now,\u201d Sandoval added.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is the former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration under George W. Bush, in his position under Bush, headed the raids of numerous medical marijuana establishments. Despite the official position of the DEA at the time, Hutchinson spoke at a university in 2011, eight years later, about medical marijuana use.<\/p>\n<p>He told the audience that people should have access to whatever is recommended by their doctors, \u201cwhether it is Marinol or marijuana or whatever.\u201d Hutchinson opposed a measure in the fall to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas. The ballot won in the end and he ultimately signed it into law.<\/p>\n<p>He explained to the Daily Beast that federal law should not overrule state laws of which a given state\u2019s constituents have voted in favor. \u201cWell it is a massive conflict. So you either have to change state law or you change federal law, and right now Congress has not changed federal law.\u201d He added, \u201cI think it\u2019s too late to turn back the clock on medical marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gop-governors-to-trump-its-too-late-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-medical-marijuana.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"> <\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Katelyn Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/03\/gop-governors-to-trump-its-too-late-to-turn-back-the-clock-on-medical-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Governors To Trump &#8211; It\u2019s Too Late To Turn Back The Clock On Medical Marijuana<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Erin Corbett<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"mailto:roxanne@rawstory.com\">roxanne@rawstory.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Brendan Smialowski<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Trump administration\u2019s proposed crackdown on recreational marijuana, some Republicans are coming to terms with the fact that medical&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2017\/03\/gop-governors-trump-late-turn-back-clock-medical-marijuana\/\" 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":[1616,9,1,3],"tags":[4184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269"}],"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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}