LINCOLN, Neb. —

The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, strapped for time and cash, approved new emergency regulations at its Tuesday meeting.

It was the first meeting since the nascent body formed in June, with all five commissioners in attendance, and it was the first time dissent in the ranks became clear. Commissioner Bruce Bailey recited a list of changes he wanted to the rules. One centered on the allowance of vaping in the rollout of medical cannabis.

"Basically, vaping affects within one to three minutes," Bailey said, emphasizing the importance of its immediacy.

The chair of the commission, Monica Oldenburg, disagreed.

"Everybody says vaping is not medicine," Oldenburg said. "If we have alternatives that are safer, like a tincture that, also sublingual, that is very fast. I

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