Carl Olsen

If you’re like me and you stopped using mar­i­jua­na 24 years ago (I’ll admit not very peo­ple are like me), then you’d prob­a­bly like to see some progress being made on reform­ing the image and rep­u­ta­tion of mar­i­jua­na (slan­dered and vil­i­fied in a smear cam­paign best known as “Reefer Mad­ness”) in Iowa. And, if you’re … Leg­isla­tive Goals for 2015

If you’ve been fol­low­ing along, you’ll know that when the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy rec­om­mend­ed resched­ul­ing mar­i­jua­na in 2010, the chair of the Iowa House Com­mit­tee on Pub­lic Safe­ty, Green­field Repub­li­can, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Clel Baudler, filed his own bill in 2011 oppos­ing the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy, H.F. 183 (by the Com­mit­tee on Pub­lic Safe­ty), for­mer­ly … Rescheduling’s Biggest Oppo­nent Revers­es Posi­tion

I have filed four peti­tions for mar­i­jua­na resched­ul­ing with the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy (2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014), two with­out any sci­en­tif­ic or med­ical evi­dence (2008 and 2014), and two with sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical evi­dence (2012 and 2013). I won the two that did not include any sci­en­tif­ic or med­ical evi­dence, prov­ing that I … An expla­na­tion of marijuana’s sched­ul­ing is essen­tial

Wednes­day, August 27, 2014, approx­i­mate­ly 9:39 a.m. Board mem­bers present: Susan Frey (tem­po­rary chair, licensed phar­ma­cist), LaDon­na Gra­tias (pub­lic mem­ber), Edward Maier (chair, licensed phar­ma­cist), Edward McKen­na (licensed phar­ma­cist), Sharon Mey­er (licensed phar­ma­cist), Judith M. Trumpy (pub­lic mem­ber). Board mem­ber absent: James Miller (licensed phar­ma­cist). Susan Frey: Next up we have 4.4 and that is … Phar­ma­cy board hear­ing on August 27, 2014

The Iowa Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (IDP) State Plat­form Com­mit­tee met again on Sat­ur­day, March 17, to fin­ish our work on the IDP State Plat­form Com­mit­tee report to the IDP State Con­ven­tion on June 21. The dead­line for sub­mit­ting the report to the IDP is May 23. The room was sched­uled for 8.5 hours, We start­ed at … Anoth­er awful state plat­form com­mit­tee meet­ing

After suc­cess­ful­ly chair­ing my con­gres­sion­al dis­trict plat­form com­mit­tee this year, I joined up with the Iowa Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty state plat­form com­mit­tee again. This is my eighth cycle in a 16-year span. I was elect­ed sec­re­tary of the state plat­form com­mit­tee in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. I resigned as sec­re­tary in … Anoth­er dif­fi­cult year on the state plat­form com­mit­tee

While Gov­er­nor Branstad lies about the offi­cial posi­tion of his admin­is­tra­tion, the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy, the admin­is­tra­tive agency giv­en the task of for­mu­lat­ing the offi­cial pol­i­cy of the Branstad Admin­is­tra­tion, con­tin­ues to say their offi­cial posi­tion is that mar­i­jua­na is med­i­cine and the leg­is­la­ture should cre­ate a med­ical mar­i­jua­na pro­gram. You can lis­ten for … The Offi­cial Posi­tion of the Branstad Admin­is­tra­tion

Gov­er­nor Branstad said he’s opposed to a med­ical mar­i­jua­na pro­gram like Cal­i­for­ni­a’s, while ignor­ing the fact that the Iowa Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health has rec­om­mend­ed a pro­gram like New Mex­i­co’s Med­ical Cannabis Pro­gram. As you may recall, Iowa State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Clel Baudler went to Cal­i­for­nia in 2010 and lied about hav­ing hem­or­rhoids to get a … Gov­er­nor Branstad’s Straw Man