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State med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws and fed­er­al sched­ul­ing

New Bipartisan Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Act Filed

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A new bipar­ti­san med­ical cannabid­i­ol act has been filed in the Iowa House, HF 2097, by three Iowa House Repub­li­cans, Tedd Gassman (R. Scarville), Lar­ry Sheets (R. Moul­ton), Ron Jor­gensen (R. Sioux City), and three Iowa House Democ­rats, Char­lie McConkey (D. Coun­cil Bluffs), Scott Ourth (D. Ack­worth), and Mary Lynn Wolfe (D. Clin­ton). As many … New Bipar­ti­san Iowa Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act Filed

Iowa Republican Senators File Marijuana Reclassification Bill

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Three Iowa Repub­li­can sen­a­tors, Charles Schnei­der, Mark Chel­gren, and Jason Schultz, have filed a stand alone mar­i­jua­na reclas­si­fi­ca­tion bill in the Iowa Sen­ate, SF 2025, this week. Two pre­vi­ous bills, SSB 1205 and SF 282, that would do the same thing were filed sep­a­rate­ly by two Iowa Demo­c­ra­t­ic sen­a­tors, Steven Sod­ders and Joe Bolk­com, in … Iowa Repub­li­can Sen­a­tors File Mar­i­jua­na Reclas­si­fi­ca­tion Bill

Iowa Board of Pharmacy Open Records Request 2015

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This is an update to my two pre­vi­ous arti­cles: Jan­u­ary 11, 2015: Phar­ma­cy Board Denies My Peti­tion Again Novem­ber 16, 2015: Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy Leg­isla­tive Pro­pos­als for 2016 On Jan­u­ary 14, 2015, the Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy (ODCP) made changes to the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy (IBPE) leg­isla­tive pro­pos­al for 2015, with­out noti­fy­ing … Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy Open Records Request 2015

Iowa Board of Pharmacy Legislative Proposals for 2016

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I attend­ed the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy’s meet­ing on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 4, 2015, because I noticed that the rec­om­men­da­tion for the reclas­si­fi­ca­tion of cannabid­i­ol that the board approved on Jan­u­ary 5, 2015, was not on the list of pro­posed changes to the sched­ules of con­trolled sub­stances for 2016. That item was on the agen­da for … Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy Leg­isla­tive Pro­pos­als for 2016

Marijuana and Federalism Conference

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Pre­sen­ta­tions from our con­fer­ence: “Fed­er­al­ism: The Miss­ing Piece of the Puz­zle!” Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 31, 2015, 1 PM to 4 PM Com­mu­ni­ty Room, Mick­le Cen­ter, 1620 Pleas­ant St., Des Moines, IA 50314 Dr. Frank Caligiuri, Pro­fes­sor of Phar­ma­cy, “The Sched­ul­ing Dilem­ma” Boris Shcha­ran­sky, Iowa Hemp Asso­ci­a­tion, “Fed­er­al Cannabis Leg­is­la­tion” Carl Olsen, Iowans for Med­ical Mar­i­jua­na, “Fed­er­al­ism” … Mar­i­jua­na and Fed­er­al­ism Con­fer­ence

My Meeting with Congressman Young

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Meet­ing with Con­gress­man Young — 9/22/2015 I met with Con­gress­man David Young (R. IA‑3) on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2015, at 11:00 a.m. I gave him a series of doc­u­ments and had a short dis­cus­sion on each one. I asked him a few ques­tions. One of the things that impressed me right away is that he … My Meet­ing with Con­gress­man Young

Federalism: the missing piece in state medical marijuana laws

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At first glance, state med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws seem to con­flict with fed­er­al law. But that seems odd, because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has nev­er attempt­ed to block state med­ical mar­i­jua­na leg­is­la­tion. Why is that? When Con­gress wrote the fed­er­al Con­trolled Sub­stances Act, it placed mar­i­jua­na in some­thing called a sched­ule. A sched­ule is just anoth­er name … Fed­er­al­ism: the miss­ing piece in state med­ical mar­i­jua­na laws

It’s Not Over Yet

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There has been a lot of par­ti­san bick­er­ing in the Iowa leg­is­la­ture over med­ical mar­i­jua­na this year, and it’s not over yet.  Since Iowa enact­ed a med­ical cannabis extract law (2015 Iowa Code Chap­ter 124D — Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act) last year, no one has been able to obtain it legal­ly.  Cannabid­i­ol is not approved by … It’s Not Over Yet

What the Democrats are missing.

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Audio from April 20, 2015 Democ­rats are say­ing Iowa should not wait for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to legal­ize med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na. Repub­li­cans are ask­ing how busi­ness­es (4 grow­ers and 12 dis­pen­saries) are all going to be vio­lat­ing fed­er­al law here Iowa and that’s just okay with all of us? So I’m ask­ing, if accept­ed … What the Democ­rats are miss­ing.