Raw Cannabis — Senate Study Bill 1113

Raw cannabis in vapor­iz­able form is on the agen­da for a Sen­ate Judi­cia­ry sub­com­mit­tee meet­ing this morn­ing at 11:30 a.m.  Sen­ate Study Bill 1113 (SSB 1113) adds vapor­ized cannabis to the list of approved forms in Iowa and increas­es the num­ber of dis­pen­saries from three to ten.

Iowa should seek a fed­er­al exemp­tion under 21 U.S.C. § 822(d) for these man­u­fac­tur­ers and dis­trib­u­tors, so con­sumers are pro­tect­ed by 21 U.S.C. § 822©(3).  The leg­is­la­ture needs to address this.

The lim­it­ed num­ber of man­u­fac­tur­ing and dis­tri­b­u­tion licens­es in Iowa make it unlike­ly any­one with­out intent to vio­late fed­er­al drug law is even eli­gi­ble to apply.

How did it become the pol­i­cy of our state to pro­mote vio­la­tion of fed­er­al drug law?