What the Democrats are missing.

Audio from April 20, 2015

Democ­rats are say­ing Iowa should not wait for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to legal­ize med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na.

Repub­li­cans are ask­ing how busi­ness­es (4 grow­ers and 12 dis­pen­saries) are all going to be vio­lat­ing fed­er­al law here Iowa and that’s just okay with all of us?

So I’m ask­ing, if accept­ed med­ical use in treat­ment in the Unit­ed States means accept­ed by a state and intrastate med­ical use does not require FDA approval, why aren’t we say­ing that its legal instead of agree­ing that it’s ille­gal?

Are we say­ing, “We knows it’s a crime, but we’re okay with it?” Real­ly?

Repub­li­cans will just have to eat that?

I under­stand pas­sion and all that, but we’re get­ting to the point where we real­ly need to work out the details.

We should say the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is vio­lat­ing our states’ right to make this a med­i­cine and the exist­ing fed­er­al law already makes it legal for us to do that. Just because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is unlaw­ful­ly keep­ing mar­i­jua­na in a clas­si­fi­ca­tion that says it has no med­ical use in treat­ment in the Unit­ed States is no excuse for us to just go along with it.