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On Novem­ber 17, 2014, the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy held a pub­lic hear­ing on my peti­tion to have mar­i­jua­na removed from sched­ule 1 of the Iowa Uni­form Con­trolled Sub­stances Act.  Dale Wool­ery from the Governor’s Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy (ODCP), showed up to argue against me. Wool­ery takes full advan­tage of the fact that … Ship of State (fools)

On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 19, 2014, the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy vot­ed to delay the rul­ing on my peti­tion to have mar­i­jua­na reclas­si­fied in Iowa. The board vot­ed unan­i­mous­ly to rec­om­mend reclas­si­fi­ca­tion in 2010, so this is not some­thing new the board has not pre­vi­ous­ly con­sid­ered.  Unless the board votes to recon­sid­er that 2010 rec­om­men­da­tion, the … State admin­is­tra­tive agen­cies must fol­low state law

If you’re like me and you stopped using mar­i­jua­na 24 years ago (I’ll admit not very peo­ple are like me), then you’d prob­a­bly like to see some progress being made on reform­ing the image and rep­u­ta­tion of mar­i­jua­na (slan­dered and vil­i­fied in a smear cam­paign best known as “Reefer Mad­ness”) in Iowa. And, if you’re … Leg­isla­tive Goals for 2015

If you’ve been fol­low­ing along, you’ll know that when the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy rec­om­mend­ed resched­ul­ing mar­i­jua­na in 2010, the chair of the Iowa House Com­mit­tee on Pub­lic Safe­ty, Green­field Repub­li­can, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Clel Baudler, filed his own bill in 2011 oppos­ing the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy, H.F. 183 (by the Com­mit­tee on Pub­lic Safe­ty), for­mer­ly … Rescheduling’s Biggest Oppo­nent Revers­es Posi­tion

I have filed four peti­tions for mar­i­jua­na resched­ul­ing with the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy (2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014), two with­out any sci­en­tif­ic or med­ical evi­dence (2008 and 2014), and two with sci­en­tif­ic and med­ical evi­dence (2012 and 2013). I won the two that did not include any sci­en­tif­ic or med­ical evi­dence, prov­ing that I … An expla­na­tion of marijuana’s sched­ul­ing is essen­tial

Wednes­day, August 27, 2014, approx­i­mate­ly 9:39 a.m. Board mem­bers present: Susan Frey (tem­po­rary chair, licensed phar­ma­cist), LaDon­na Gra­tias (pub­lic mem­ber), Edward Maier (chair, licensed phar­ma­cist), Edward McKen­na (licensed phar­ma­cist), Sharon Mey­er (licensed phar­ma­cist), Judith M. Trumpy (pub­lic mem­ber). Board mem­ber absent: James Miller (licensed phar­ma­cist). Susan Frey: Next up we have 4.4 and that is … Phar­ma­cy board hear­ing on August 27, 2014

The Iowa Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (IDP) State Plat­form Com­mit­tee met again on Sat­ur­day, March 17, to fin­ish our work on the IDP State Plat­form Com­mit­tee report to the IDP State Con­ven­tion on June 21. The dead­line for sub­mit­ting the report to the IDP is May 23. The room was sched­uled for 8.5 hours, We start­ed at … Anoth­er awful state plat­form com­mit­tee meet­ing

After suc­cess­ful­ly chair­ing my con­gres­sion­al dis­trict plat­form com­mit­tee this year, I joined up with the Iowa Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty state plat­form com­mit­tee again. This is my eighth cycle in a 16-year span. I was elect­ed sec­re­tary of the state plat­form com­mit­tee in 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. I resigned as sec­re­tary in … Anoth­er dif­fi­cult year on the state plat­form com­mit­tee