My Amendment to SF 484

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Sick People's March
Sick Peo­ple’s March — April 7, 2015 — Des Moines, Iowa — in sup­port of SF 484
On April 7, 2015, I met with Iowa sen­a­tors Jack Whitver and Charles Schnei­der to dis­cus pro­tect­ing Iowa cannabis patients from the unlaw­ful clas­si­fi­ca­tion of cannabis under the fed­er­al Con­trolled Sub­stances Act.

Sen­a­tor Whitver gave me the fol­low­ing amend­ment he had cre­at­ed for me by the Leg­isla­tive Ser­vices Agency:

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Sen­ate File 484
Amend Sen­ate File 484 as fol­lows:
1. Page 17, after line 11 by insert­ing:
<Sec. ___. NOTIFICATION. The office of attor­ney
gen­er­al in this state shall noti­fy the attor­ney
gen­er­al of the Unit­ed States request­ing that the Unit­ed
States depart­ment of jus­tice rec­og­nize this state’s
right to deter­mine the med­ical use of con­trolled
sub­stances, by reclas­si­fy­ing mar­i­jua­na as a sched­ule 2
con­trolled sub­stance instead of a sched­ule 1 con­trolled
sub­stance.>
2. Title page, line 1, by strik­ing and
Insert­ing <relat­ing to>
3. By renum­ber­ing as nec­es­sary.