{"id":7952,"date":"2017-12-22T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2898222&amp;preview_id=2898222"},"modified":"2017-12-22T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:05:07","slug":"trump-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-extending-federal-medical-marijuana-protections-for-a-few-more-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/trump-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-extending-federal-medical-marijuana-protections-for-a-few-more-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs stopgap spending bill extending federal medical marijuana protections for a few more weeks"},"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\/trump-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-extending-federal-medical-marijuana-protections-for-a-few-more-weeks\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Dec 22, 2017, 11:07 am \u2022 Updated: Dec 22, 2017, 1:39 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"author\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/author\/alexp\/\" rel=\"author\">Alex Pasquariello<\/a><\/span><em>, The Cannabist Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed a temporary spending bill into law on Friday to avert a government shutdown after the Republican-led Congress did the bare minimum in a sprint toward the holidays and punted disputes on immigration, health care and the budget to next year.<\/p>\n<p>Protections for state medical marijuana programs known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment were also continued in the legislation to fund the government through Jan. 19, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., announced in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatients around the country who rely on medical marijuana for treatment\u2013and the businesses that serve them\u2013now have some measure of certainty,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cOur fight, however, continues to maintain these important protections in the next funding bill passed by Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The measure had passed the House on Thursday on a 231-188 vote over Democratic opposition and then cleared the Senate, 66-32, with Democrats from Republican-leaning states providing many of the key votes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time Rohrabacher-Blumenauer protections have been temporarily extended as part of stopgap spending measures. It comes less than a month after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/11\/29\/66-congress-letter-rohrabacher-blumenauer-medical-marijuana-states\/93538\/\">a letter was made public<\/a> in which 66 members of Congress urged Senate and House leaders to extend the medical marijuana protections that have been in place since December 2014. Those protections, previously known as Rohrabacher-Farr, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/amendment\/113th-congress\/house-amendment\/748\/text\">prohibit the U.S. Department of Justice<\/a> from using federal funds to prevent certain states \u201cfrom implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession or cultivation of medical marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta-author\">\n<div class=\"authorimage\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/author\/alexp\/\" rel=\"author\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/trump-signs-stopgap-spending-bill-extending-federal-medical-marijuana-protections-for-a-few-more-weeks.jpg\" class=\"authormug\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"author-desc\">Alex joined The Cannabist as Editor in April 2017. He started his journalism career in Colorado as a reporter at community newspapers and national ski magazines before heading to New York to work as an editor at Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler and digital&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Patients around the country who rely on medical marijuana for treatment&#8211;and the businesses that serve them&#8211;now have some measure of certainty,&#8221; said Rep. Earl Blumenauer. &#8220;Our fight, however, continues to maintain these important protections in the next funding bill passed by Congress.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5087,5662,7422,6813,77,5667,56,9,6855,5019,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5096,5668,7423,6818,2655,5673,2636,6856,5022,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952"}],"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=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}