New House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Mixed Views on Medical Cannabis

WASHINGTON, DC — Wisconsin Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate, Paul Ryan, was elected as the 54th Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. The question that may be on the minds of patient activists is how the new Speaker will act on the issue of medical cannabis.

Outgoing Speaker John Boehner may not have been a genuine champion, but his relative indifference to the subject was helpful in the successful budget of several amendment votes on medical cannabis over the past two years. Ryan’s record on the…