Carl Olsen

State Marijuana Laws

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Today, forty-eight (48) states accept the med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na.  How­ev­er, marijuana’s clas­si­fi­ca­tion in the fed­er­al Con­trolled Sub­stance Act (CSA) has not changed as a result.  State laws are not sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence.  State laws are polit­i­cal acts.  The Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion (DEA) still uses the same analy­sis it used pri­or to 1996 when Cal­i­for­nia became … State Mar­i­jua­na Laws

Petition for Declaratory Judgment

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Olsen v. IDPH In Octo­ber, I filed a Peti­tion for Declara­to­ry Judg­ment ask­ing to par­tic­i­pate in the state Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act for reli­gious rea­sons.  My sacra­ment has been cannabis since the 1970s and I have nev­er been allowed to use it.  I filed the case based on the free exer­cise of reli­gion claus­es of First … Peti­tion for Declara­to­ry Judg­ment

Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, 2021

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Cannabis_Reform@finance.senate.gov Cannabis Admin­is­tra­tion and Oppor­tu­ni­ty Act GAI21675 4LN Dis­cus­sion Draft S.L.C. Mod­ern state, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al drug laws were designed to be flex­i­ble.  Instead of statu­to­ry clas­si­fi­ca­tion of drugs, clas­si­fi­ca­tion is an admin­is­tra­tive process called sched­ul­ing.  The sched­ul­ing of drugs can be adjust­ed by admin­is­tra­tive process­es with­out the need for fur­ther leg­is­la­tion or rene­go­ti­at­ed inter­na­tion­al … Cannabis Admin­is­tra­tion and Oppor­tu­ni­ty Act, 2021

Update on federal cannabis exemption

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Bleed­ing Heart­land Update on efforts to obtain a fed­er­al cannabis exemp­tion for Iowa Mon­day, Jun 21 2021 carl Carl Olsen is the founder of Iowans for Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na. – pro­mot­ed by Lau­ra Belin In Feb­ru­ary 2019, I asked the Iowa Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Board, which reg­u­lates our state’s med­ical cannabis pro­gram, if there was any­thing we … Update on fed­er­al cannabis exemp­tion

Comments on Hawaii HCR 132

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Tes­ti­mo­ny COMMENTING on HCR 132 Request to the Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion for an excep­tion to the Reg­u­la­tions Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mark M. Nakashima, Chair House Com­mit­tee on Judi­cia­ry & Hawai­ian Affairs Hear­ing Date: 3/29/2021       Room Num­ber: 325 HCR 132 is before you today because of work I start­ed here in Iowa in Jan­u­ary of 2019, ask­ing my … Com­ments on Hawaii HCR 132

Letter to Governor Reynolds

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  Carl Olsen 130 NE Auro­ra Avenue Des Moines, IA 50313   Jan­u­ary 16, 2021 Office of the Gov­er­nor Iowa State Capi­tol 1007 East Grand Avenue Des Moines, IA 50319   Re:  2020 Iowa Acts Chap­ter 1116, HF 2589, Sec­tion 31 Dear Gov­er­nor Reynolds, 2014 Iowa Acts Chap­ter 1125, SF 2360, autho­rized pos­ses­sion of cannabid­i­ol … Let­ter to Gov­er­nor Reynolds

DEA Denies State Exemption

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On Novem­ber 10, 2020, just a week after the elec­tions, the Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion (DEA) denied our peti­tion for a new fed­er­al reg­u­la­tion exempt­ing state med­ical cannabis pro­grams to be added as 21 C.F.R. §1307.32.  DEA explained that deny­ing the exemp­tion was nec­es­sary because it would cre­ate an exemp­tion: Your peti­tion is denied because the … DEA Denies State Exemp­tion

Internal Revenue Code, Section 280E

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I just fin­ished read­ing the open­ing brief in Patients Mutu­al Assis­tance Col­lec­tive D.B.A. Har­bor­side Health Cen­ter v. Com­mis­sion­er of Inter­nal Rev­enue, No. 19–73078 (9th Cir., May 26, 2020). Har­bor­side claims the tax penal­ty the Inter­nal Rev­enue Ser­vice (IRS) is apply­ing vio­lates the Six­teenth Amend­ment to the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion and that IRS has failed to include … Inter­nal Rev­enue Code, Sec­tion 280E

HF2589 Violates State Sovereignty

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BEFORE THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH Peti­tion by Carl Olsen for agency action relat­ed to House File 2589 and Iowa Code Chap­ter 124E PETITION FOR AGENCY ACTION Peti­tion­er, Carl Olsen, objects to House File 2589 at page 8, §31 at lines 19–27 (passed by the Iowa House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on March 10, 2020, by … HF2589 Vio­lates State Sov­er­eign­ty