States

Has the recent U.S. Supreme Court deci­sion in Mur­phy v. NCAA, 584 U.S. ___ (May 14, 2018), pro­hibit­ing Con­gress from forc­ing states to out­law sports gam­bling, actu­al­ly changed any­thing regard­ing legal­iza­tion of mar­i­jua­na in the States?  No, not real­ly, and here’s why. The deci­sion in Mur­phy does not change any­thing since Gon­za­les v. Raich, 545 … Has Mur­phy v NCAA changed any­thing?

Pro­posed Amend­ment to SF 2397 (a bill by the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Ways and Means)   AN AMENDMENT TO SF 2397   Sec­tion 124E.1, Code 2018, is amend­ed by adding the fol­low­ing new sub­sec­tion and renum­ber­ing the remain­ing sub­sec­tions: NEW SECTION.  124E.2  Leg­isla­tive pur­pose and intent. The pur­pose and intent of this chap­ter is all of the … Request­ed Amend­ments to SF2397 (2018)

HAS IOWA TURNED TO CRIME? We’ve been hear­ing some star­tling com­ments on Iowa’s new cannabis oil law late­ly, 2017 Iowa Acts Chap­ter 162, HF 524.  Iowa’s new law autho­rizes “pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion” in Iowa of prod­ucts con­tain­ing “any cannabi­noid” found in mar­i­jua­na plants which con­tains no more than 3% tetrahy­dro­cannabi­nol.  Iowa Code § 124E.2(6) (2018).  … Can­di­date Ques­tion­naire 2018

On Jan­u­ary 19, 2018, some Iowa leg­is­la­tors with good inten­tions filed House Con­cur­rent Res­o­lu­tion 104 (HCR104), ask­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na. Although the inten­tion is good, HCR104 is bad. Iowa needs to clean up its own affairs before mak­ing a fuss about the mess the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is per­pet­u­at­ing.  Before address­ing fed­er­al drug … House Con­cur­rent Res­o­lu­tion 104 is a Bad Idea

Iowa has a new health cri­sis, med­ical pro­fes­sion­als prac­tic­ing law with­out licens­es. In an effort to make cannabid­i­ol as unhealthy and risky as pos­si­ble, med­ical pro­fes­sion­als in the Iowa House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives are claim­ing the law they just helped enact vio­lates fed­er­al law.  This is known in law as crim­i­nal intent (known in legal terms … Med­ical Pro­fes­sion­als Prac­tic­ing Law With­out Licens­es

Ear­li­er this year, Iowa legal­ized the cul­ti­va­tion of mar­i­jua­na for med­ical use, by a vote of 83–11 in the Iowa House and by a vote of 33–7 in the Iowa Sen­ate.  The bill was signed into law by our gov­er­nor on May 12, 2017 Chap­ter 162 (H.F. 524). On Decem­ber 18, 2017, I wrote U.S. … Chuck Grass­ley — a day late and a dol­lar short

On Mon­day, Decem­ber 11, 2017, I spoke with Con­gress­man Young about H.R.2920 (CARERS Act of 2017).  Con­gress­man Young is a co-spon­­sor of H.R.2920, and he was a co-spon­­sor of H.R.1538 (CARERS Act of 2015). Both the 2015 and 2017 ver­sions of the CARERS Act: rec­og­nize an exemp­tion from fed­er­al sched­ul­ing for state med­ical mar­i­jua­na pro­grams; … Con­ver­sa­tion with David Young on H.R.2920

State law must address fed­er­al sched­ul­ing because of the phrase used in the fed­er­al statute as a pre-con­di­­tion for place­ment in sched­ule 1 “cur­rent­ly accept­ed med­ical use in treat­ment in the Unit­ed States.” The phrase “cur­rent­ly accept­ed med­ical use” is not defined in the fed­er­al statute. Alliance for Cannabis Ther­a­peu­tics v. DEA, 930 F.2d 936, … Iowa Code Chap­ter 124E Exempt from Fed­er­al Sched­ules