House File 990

I am writ­ing in sup­port of House File 990, expand­ing access to cannabis for med­ical use, but not on the con­di­tion it puts Iowans into a need­less con­flict with fed­er­al drug law.

Please stop autho­riz­ing vio­la­tion of fed­er­al drug law.  Cannabis is a fed­er­al sched­ule 1 con­trolled sub­stance with no accept­ed med­ical use in treat­ment in the Unit­ed States.  Iowa can­not autho­rize it with­out a fed­er­al waiv­er.

Pey­ote is a fed­er­al sched­ule 1 con­trolled sub­stance that has a fed­er­al waiv­er for reli­gious use.  21 C.F.R. § 1307.31.

The excep­tion for reli­gious use of pey­ote is autho­rized by 21 U.S.C. § 822(d) which allows the Attor­ney Gen­er­al to waive reg­is­tra­tion require­ments if “con­sis­tent with the pub­lic health and safe­ty.”

Church­es do not have greater rights than sov­er­eign states.  Iowa leg­is­la­tors are not stand­ing up for the cit­i­zens.  The cit­i­zens of Iowa expect their legisala­tors to pro­tect their fed­er­al rights, not just give them away.

Thank you for lis­ten­ing, if you are.