Carl Olsen

Iowa Board of Pharmacy Legislative Proposals for 2016

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I attend­ed the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy’s meet­ing on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 4, 2015, because I noticed that the rec­om­men­da­tion for the reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of cannabid­i­ol that the board approved on Jan­u­ary 5, 2015, was not on the list of pro­posed changes to the sched­ules of con­trolled sub­stances for 2016. That item was on the agen­da for … Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy Leg­isla­tive Pro­pos­als for 2016

Marijuana and Federalism Conference

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Pre­sen­ta­tions from our con­fer­ence: “Fed­er­al­ism: The Miss­ing Piece of the Puz­zle!” Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 31, 2015, 1 PM to 4 PM Com­mu­ni­ty Room, Mick­le Cen­ter, 1620 Pleas­ant St., Des Moines, IA 50314 Dr. Frank Caligiuri, Pro­fes­sor of Phar­ma­cy, “The Sched­ul­ing Dilem­ma” Boris Shcha­ran­sky, Iowa Hemp Asso­ci­a­tion, “Fed­er­al Cannabis Leg­is­la­tion” Carl Olsen, Iowans for Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na, “Fed­er­al­ism” … Mar­i­jua­na and Fed­er­al­ism Con­fer­ence

My Meeting with Congressman Young

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Meet­ing with Con­gress­man Young — 9/22/2015 I met with Con­gress­man David Young (R. IA‑3) on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. I gave him a series of doc­u­ments and had a short dis­cus­sion on each one. I asked him a few ques­tions. One of the things that impressed me right away is that he … My Meet­ing with Con­gress­man Young

Federalism: the missing piece in state medical marijuana laws

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At first glance, state med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws seem to con­flict with fed­er­al law. But that seems odd, because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has nev­er attempt­ed to block state med­ical mar­i­jua­na leg­is­la­tion. Why is that? When Con­gress wrote the fed­er­al Con­trolled Sub­stances Act, it placed mar­i­jua­na in some­thing called a sched­ule. A sched­ule is just anoth­er name … Fed­er­al­ism: the miss­ing piece in state med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws

Martin O’Malley will declassify marijuana as a schedule 1 drug

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On July 31, 2015, Mar­tin O’Mal­ley released his white paper on Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform, which says, “As pres­i­dent, Gov­er­nor O’Malley will: … Declas­si­fy Mar­i­jua­na as a Sched­ule I Drug.” But, the sen­tence imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing that one is less clear, “O’Malley will direct the Attor­ney Gen­er­al to move to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na, while sup­port­ing bipar­ti­san con­gres­sion­al efforts … Mar­tin O’Malley will declas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na as a sched­ule 1 drug

Facebook Commandos

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For those of you who use Face­book, I have pity on you.  It’s not a friend­ly place.  Today, peo­ple call­ing them­selves advo­cates for full legal­iza­tion of mar­i­jua­na in Iowa are com­plain­ing about two groups we have here in Iowa and the com­plaints are sim­i­lar toward both groups. You have a group called Iowans 4 Med­ical … Face­book Com­man­dos

It’s Not Over Yet

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There has been a lot of par­ti­san bick­er­ing in the Iowa leg­is­la­ture over med­ical mar­i­jua­na this year, and it’s not over yet.  Since Iowa enact­ed a med­ical cannabis extract law (2015 Iowa Code Chap­ter 124D — Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act) last year, no one has been able to obtain it legal­ly.  Cannabid­i­ol is not approved by … It’s Not Over Yet

What the Democrats are missing.

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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 … What the Democ­rats are miss­ing.