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Religious Claim for Cannabidiol Moves Forward

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Board’s Motion to Dis­miss Denied On Novem­ber 13, 2018, the Iowa Dis­trict Court denied the board­’s motion to dis­miss my reli­gious claim for cannabid­i­ol.  The order, as well as an audio record­ing of the hear­ing, can be found at: https://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/cases/olsen-pharmacy.html 1970 I began to real­ize that cannabis is the sacra­ment in the late 1960s.  And … Reli­gious Claim for Cannabid­i­ol Moves For­ward

Appeal from pharmacy board’s refusal to consider religious exemption

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On August 15, 2018, my attor­ney filed an appeal from the phar­ma­cy board’s refusal to con­sid­er a reli­gious exemp­tion to the sched­ules of con­trolled sub­stances for the sacra­men­tal use of cannabis by mem­bers of the Rasta­fari faith.  Olsen v. Board of Phar­ma­cy, Iowa Dis­trict Court, Polk Coun­ty, No. CVCV056841. The exec­u­tive direc­tor uni­lat­er­al­ly denied the … Appeal from phar­ma­cy board’s refusal to con­sid­er reli­gious exemp­tion

Board of Pharmacy responds to Petition for Religious Exemption

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Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy ANDREW FUNK, PHARM.D. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR July 16, 2018 Carl Olsen PO Box 41381 Des Moines, IA 50311 Sent via email only to: Carl Olsen and Col­in Mur­phy RE: Peti­tion for Sched­ul­ing Rec­om­men­da­tion Mr. Olsen, On July 5, 2018, you sub­mit­ted a Peti­tion for Sched­ul­ing Rec­om­men­da­tion to the Board, which asked the … Board of Phar­ma­cy responds to Peti­tion for Reli­gious Exemp­tion

Sacramental use of cannabis

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I’m a mem­ber of a Jamaican Rasta­far­i­an church incor­po­rat­ed in Jamaica as the Ethiopi­an Zion Cop­tic Church (EZCC) in 1976, Act No. 11.  The sacra­ment of the EZCC is cannabis. I was arrest­ed in 1978 with 100 pounds of cannabis in Mus­ca­tine Coun­ty in Iowa, and my appeal was heard by the Iowa Supreme Court … Sacra­men­tal use of cannabis

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

Legal drug industry wants you dead — after you pay them for it

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The Iowa Gov­er­nor’s Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy is at it again, this time com­par­ing a mar­i­jua­na cig­a­rette to a keg of beer. What’s even more annoy­ing is the spokesper­son for the legal drug indus­try, Peter Komen­dows­ki, pres­i­dent of Part­ner­ship for a Drug-Free Iowa. In an arti­cle in Today’s Des Moines Reg­is­ter, Mr. Komen­dows­ki is … Legal drug indus­try wants you dead — after you pay them for it

Long Silence and Unpublished Article

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Par­don the long silence.  I’ve been busy work­ing on my state and fed­er­al appeals.  The state case is fin­ished and I’m wait­ing for the Iowa Supreme Court rul­ing. My final brief in the fed­er­al appeal is due next week and I’m work­ing on it now.  Back in Feb­ru­ary, the Polk Coun­ty Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty asked me … Long Silence and Unpub­lished Arti­cle