<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>First, Gov. Otter supported an out for deadbeat dads behind on child support payments.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/04/16/3754119/otter-not-prepared-to-call-special.html" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/04/16/3754119/otter-not-prepared-to-call-special.html</font></a></div><div><br></div><div>And now he denies much-needed medical aid to Idaho children with an intractable form of epilepsy.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (April 17, 2015) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 20px; -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 1; font-size: 48px; font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Otter vetoes bill to allow CBD oil to be used to treat sick Idaho kids</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gov. Butch Otter has vetoed SB 1146a, the bill that would have allowed parents of Idaho children with an intractable form of epilepsy to treat their kids with cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic oil that's an extract of cannabis and can halt the children's repeated, extended and life-threatening seizures. The bill passed after lengthy and emotional hearings during this year's legislative session. "Of course I sympathize with the heartbreaking dilemma facing some families trying to cope with the debilitating impacts of disease," Otter wrote in his veto message; you can <a href="http://media.spokesman.com/documents/2015/04/cbd-veto-letter.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;">read it here</a>. But he said there were too many questions about the bill, including from law enforcement and his administration's Office of Drug Policy, which raised concerns that the bill would open the door to legalizing medical marijuana.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It ignores ongoing scientific testing on alternative treatments," Otter wrote. "It asks us to trust but not to verify. It asks us to legalize the limited use of cannabidiol oil, contrary to federal law. And it asks us to look past the potential for misuse and abuse with criminal intent."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"As an alternative to this legislation, I soon will issue an Executive Order authorizing the Department of Health & Welfare to study, and implement as it deems appropriate, an expanded access program for treatment-resistant epilepsy in children," Otter wrote. "That program has been approved by the Food & Drug Administration." </span></p></div><div>----------------------------------------</div><div><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>