Long Silence and Unpublished Article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

Formal Complaint against Office of Drug Control Policy

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Carl Olsen Jan­u­ary 22, 2012 Cit­i­zens’ Aide/Ombudsman Ola Bab­cock Miller Build­ing 1112 East Grand Avenue Des Moines, Iowa  50319–0231 Phone: 515–281‑3592 Fax: 515–242‑6007 Dear Cit­i­zens’ Aide/Ombudsman, This is a for­mal com­plaint about the Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy (ODCP) which is estab­lished by Iowa Code Chap­ter 80E.  http://www.iowa.gov/odcp/ On Decem­ber 27, 2011, ODCP pre-filed a … For­mal Com­plaint against Office of Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy

Carl Olsen’s Letter to the Colorado Department of Revenue

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Carl Olsen Jan­u­ary 15, 2012 Bar­bara J. Brohl Col­orado Depart­ment of Rev­enue State Capi­tol Annex 1375 Sher­man Street, Room 409 Den­ver, Col­orado 80261 Dear Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Brohl, On Novem­ber 7, 2000, the Peo­ple of Col­orado amend­ed the Col­orado Con­sti­tu­tion by adding Arti­cle XVIII, Sec­tion 14, Med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na for per­sons suf­fer­ing from debil­i­tat­ing med­ical … Carl Olsen’s Let­ter to the Col­orado Depart­ment of Rev­enue

Carl Olsen’s Letter to Governor Jan Brewer

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Carl Olsen Jan­u­ary 14, 2012 Jan­ice K. Brew­er Gov­er­nor of Ari­zona 1700 West Wash­ing­ton Street Phoenix, Ari­zona 85007 Dear Gov­er­nor Brew­er, On June 3, 2011, I tried to inter­vene in your case against the Unit­ed States, Ari­zona v. Unit­ed States, No. 11-cv-01072-PHX-SRB (Dock­et No. 6)[1], argu­ing that the prop­er course for Ari­zona to pro­tect its … Carl Olsen’s Let­ter to Gov­er­nor Jan Brew­er

U.S. Attorney in Oakland, CA cites my case

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The U.S. Attor­ney in Oak­land, CA, respond­ed to NORML’s law suit Tues­day (you know, the one three fed­er­al judges have already shred­ded): http://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/States/pdfs/ca_11cv05349_039.pdf The most annoy­ing thing about it is that she attacks me and I have no way of defend­ing myself.  On page 16, she cites Olsen v. Hold­er, 610 F. Supp. 2d 985 … U.S. Attor­ney in Oak­land, CA cites my case

Controversy over medical marijuana? Or, just an excuse to talk?

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Over the week­end, there was quite a ruckus over whether folks should sup­port legal­iza­tion or med­ical use of mar­i­jua­na, as if there was some prob­lem with folks sup­port­ing one or the oth­er, or both.  You can fol­low the dis­cus­sion at CelebStoner.com and TokeOfTheTown.com if you’d like to fol­low along.  I’m post­ing my com­ments here to … Con­tro­ver­sy over med­ical mar­i­jua­na? Or, just an excuse to talk?

Beginning of the legislative process

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I attend­ed my precinct cau­cus last night.  We had ten peo­ple.  There was only one plat­form res­o­lu­tion, mine.  I explained that since the last cau­cus I had picked up sup­port from the Des Moines Reg­is­ter (opin­ion poll on Feb­ru­ary 16, 2010, find­ing 64% of Iowans in favor of med­ical mar­i­jua­na), the Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy … Begin­ning of the leg­isla­tive process

Nice video with leading medical researchers

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  Med­ical Cannabis and its impact on Human Health   In this myth shat­ter­ing, infor­ma­tion packed doc­u­men­tary, learn from physi­cians and lead­ing researchers about med­i­c­i­nal cannabis and its demon­strat­ed effects on human health. This game-chang­ing movie presents the most com­pre­hen­sive syn­op­sis to date of the real sci­ence sur­round­ing the world’s most con­tro­ver­sial plant.

2012 Iowa Caucus Resolution

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It’s that time again! Time for the Iowa Cau­cus. Please down­load a copy of our 2012 cau­cus res­o­lu­tion and take it with you to the Iowa Cau­cus on Tues­day night, Jan­u­ary 3, 2012. I’m a Demo­c­rat, so if you’re a Repub­li­can, you’ll have to take out a scis­sors and trim off the top part. I … 2012 Iowa Cau­cus Res­o­lu­tion