[Vision2020] "Potential of misuse and abuse"

[rforce at moscow.com]

UPDATE: Otter Vetoes, Kills Cannabis Oil Bill
POSTED BY GEORGE PRENTICE ON THU, APR 16, 2015 AT 5:50 PM
UPDATE: April 16, 2015
After a long, emotional fight through the 2015 session of the Idaho
Legislature where proponents of Senate Bill 1146aa ultimately secured
passage of the measure which would provide a legal defense for parents of
children who use cannabis oil for relief from severe epileptic seizures,
Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter vetoed the bill in the late afternoon hour of
April 16, 2015.

The bill had been the subject of some of the most emotional testimony of
the recently-wrapped legislative session and, on more than one occasions,
the bill appeared to be dead. Yet proponents of the measure kept pushing
on, until both the Idaho House and Senate agreed that it should become
law.

But Otter, who had sent his top drug czar to testify against the bill
during committee hearings, said "There were too many questions and
problems and too few answers and solution in this bill to let it become
law."

"Of course I sympathize with the heartbreaking dilemma facing some
families trying to cope with the debilitating impacts of disease," wrote
Otter with his veto. "[The bill] asks us to legalize the limited use of
cannabidiol oil, contrary to federal law. And it asks us to look past the
potential of misuse and abuse with criminal intent."

...Sez Butch, sipping a cocktail (RF)