States

State med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws and fed­er­al sched­ul­ing

Comments on Proposed Rules

Com­ments on Pro­posed Amend­ments to 641 Iowa Admin­is­tra­tive Code 154 Rules 641—154.15(124E) to 641—154.65(124E) Sep­tem­ber 15, 2017 The Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act, 2017 Iowa Acts 451, Chap­ter 162 (H.F. 524), was signed into law on May 12, 2017, by Gov­er­nor Ter­ry E. Branstad. Sec­tion 9(1) of the Act, Iowa Code § 124E.5(1) (2017), autho­rizes the Iowa Com­ments on Pro­posed Rules

Comments on Proposed Rules

Com­ments on Pro­posed Amend­ments to 641 Iowa Admin­is­tra­tive Code 154 “Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act Reg­is­tra­tion Card Pro­gram” July 25, 2017 The Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act, 2017 Iowa Acts 451, Chap­ter 162 (H.F. 524), was signed into law on May 12, 2017, by Gov­er­nor Ter­ry E. Branstad. Sec­tion 7(1) of the Act, Iowa Code § 124E.4(1) (2017), autho­rizes Com­ments on Pro­posed Rules

Overlooking the Medical Boards

July 2, 2017 Jarad Klein Keo­ta, Iowa Dear Rep. Klein, Thank you for your work in expand­ing the Iowa Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act in 2017.  While Iowans for Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na (Iowa Busi­ness No. 334412) is con­cerned the pro­gram does not go far enough, pro­duc­tion of CBD in Iowa is a huge step for­ward. As you men­tion Over­look­ing the Med­ical Boards

The Elephant We Don’t Talk About

Iowans for Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na The Iowa Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act of 2017 (and the ele­phant in the room we don’t want to talk about) June 26, 2017 On April 22, 2017, the Iowa leg­is­la­ture passed the Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act, H.F. 524.  The Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act of 2017 was signed into law on May 12, 2017, by The Ele­phant We Don’t Talk About

Attention on medical marijuana shifts to Congress

Atten­tion has shift­ed from state leg­is­la­tion to Con­gress and can­di­dates run­ning for fed­er­al office. While rumors have been spread­ing around that the DEA is going to resched­ule mar­i­jua­na in July of 2016, on July 6, Con­gress­man David Young became the first fed­er­al elect­ed offi­cial from Iowa to co-spon­­sor H.R. 1538: the CARERS Act of 2015. Atten­tion on med­ical mar­i­jua­na shifts to Con­gress

Ankeny Legislative Forum April 9 2016

I live in an inter­est­ing Iowa House dis­trict. My state rep­re­sen­ta­tive is a Repub­li­can. His name is Kevin Keoster and his pro­fes­sion is school admin­is­tra­tion. Anoth­er inter­est­ing char­ac­ter who lives in our neigh­bor­hood is Dale Wool­ery, Deputy Direc­tor of the Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy. As you can imag­ine, Kevin and Dale know each oth­er Anke­ny Leg­isla­tive Forum April 9 2016

The Marijuana Scheduling Story

Jon Gettman wrote an arti­cle in High Times Mag­a­zine by the title Pot Mat­ters: The Resched­ul­ing Trap, on Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 29, 2016, detail­ing his attempts to have mar­i­jua­na fed­er­al­ly resched­uled. I was a peti­tion­er in Mr. Gettman’s most recent attempt to have mar­i­jua­na resched­uled, and I will share my per­spec­tive. The trap Mr. Gettman refers The Mar­i­jua­na Sched­ul­ing Sto­ry

Massacre at the Iowa Statehouse

I spent some time at the State Capi­tol this week attend­ing a press con­fer­ence for House Study Bill 607 on Feb­ru­ary 9 and a sub­com­mit­tee hear­ing on the bill on Feb­ru­ary 17. I took a few pic­tures and made an audio record­ing of the hear­ing, but I for­got to turn on the record­ing device for Mas­sacre at the Iowa State­house