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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 … Raw Cannabis — Sen­ate Study Bill 1113

Let­ter to Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Board, Feb­ru­ary 4, 2023 I see you have leg­is­la­tion on the agen­da for the meet­ing next Fri­day.  I was hop­ing to see com­pan­ion bills in both cham­bers for imple­men­ta­tion of the board’s eight rec­om­men­da­tions from the board’s 2022 annu­al report. The only rec­om­men­da­tion that made it into a bill is the … Let­ter to Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Board

I had to send this again, because the links were not work­ing in the email I sent on Jan­u­ary 16, 2023.  I am ask­ing leg­is­la­tors to co-spon­­sor Sen­ate File 69 or file a cor­re­spond­ing bill in the Iowa House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives.  Thank you! Intro­duced in the Iowa Sen­ate, Jan­u­ary 12, 2023 SF 69 fed­er­al exemp­tion … Fed­er­al Exemp­tion for Med­ical Cannabis

I was a guest on Vet­er­ans Action Coun­cil Round­table #40 on July 22, 2022.

March 27, 2022 Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion Attn: Admin­is­tra­tor 8701 Mor­ris­sette Dri­ve Spring­field, Vir­ginia 22152 Cer­ti­fied Mail 7007 1490 0002 0045 7626 Drug Enforce­ment Admin­is­tra­tion Attn: Diver­sion Con­trol Division/DC 8701 Mor­ris­sette Dri­ve Spring­field, VA 22152 Cer­ti­fied Mail 7007 1490 0002 0045 7633 ODLP@usdoj.gov Dear Admin­is­tra­tor: Please accept this let­ter as sup­ple­men­tal to the peti­tion we sent … Let­ter to DEA, March 27, 2022

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

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

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

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

  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