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To: Gov­er­nor of Iowa Copy To: Pres­i­dent of the Iowa Sen­ate Copy to: Speak­er of the Iowa House Peti­tion for Redress: Iowa Con­sti­tu­tion, Arti­cle 1, Sec­tion 20 Sec. 20.  Right of assem­blage — peti­tion. The peo­ple have the right freely to assem­ble togeth­er to coun­sel for the com­mon good; to make known their opin­ions to … Cannabis Peti­tion for Redress — 2025

Com­plain­ing about the cannabis tax penal­ty under 26 U.S.C. § 280E is just anoth­er way of say­ing cannabis does not belong in Sched­ule 1 of the Con­trolled Sub­stances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 812. New Mex­i­co Top Organ­ics Inc. v. Com­mis­sion­er, Dock­et No. 19661–24 in the U.S. Tax Court, involves a New Mex­i­co med­ical cannabis com­pa­ny, … Fed­er­al Cannabis Tax — 2025

“The med­i­c­i­nal prop­er­ties of the cannabis plant have been known for mil­len­nia.”  Lam­bert Ini­tia­tive for Cannabi­noid Ther­a­peu­tics, His­to­ry of cannabis, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney. Iowa clas­si­fied cannabis as a habit-for­m­ing drug with accept­ed med­ical use in 1921.  1921 Acts ch. 282. In 1967, the Unit­ed States entered into an inter­na­tion­al agree­ment clas­si­fy­ing cannabis as hav­ing … Iowa, Med­ical Cannabis, and Fed­er­al­ism

2025 Iowa Cannabis Leg­isla­tive Ses­sion Update There were sev­er­al bills filed this ses­sion that would make changes to Chap­ter 124E: HF 950, HF 990 / SF 399, HF 995, and one that ref­er­ences Chap­ter 124E, HF 978. The bill that ref­er­ences Chap­ter 124E, House File 978, cre­ates a new Chap­ter 124F, a med­ical psilo­cy­bin pro­gram.  … 2025 Iowa Cannabis Leg­is­la­tion

House File 978 House File 978 is on the House Debate Cal­en­dar, on 4/21/2025. HF 978 should be amend­ed to com­ply with fed­er­al drug law.  21 U.S.C. § 822(d) At the sub­com­mit­tee meet­ing on HF 978, Rep. Wills said he is not going to ask the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment for per­mis­sion.  Respect­ful­ly, Rep. Wills has this … Med­ical Psilo­cy­bin Done Wrong

House File 978 House File 978 is on the House Ways and Means Cal­en­dar, eli­gi­ble on 4/2/2025. This bill should be amend­ed to include our state’s fed­er­al right to enact it.  State laws autho­riz­ing the use of psy­choac­tive plants and fun­gi in sched­ule I of the con­trolled sub­stances acts are autho­rized in the fed­er­al act.  … Med­ical Psilo­cy­bin Done Right

We need to come up with a bet­ter word for med­ical use of sub­stances in sched­ule I of the Con­trolled Sub­stances Act. Sub­stances in sched­ule I have no med­ical use. The first state to enact such a pro­gram, Cal­i­for­nia in 1996, used the term “com­pas­sion­ate” to describe non-pre­scrip­­tion use. What­ev­er the term used, these are … The incon­sis­ten­cy of using the term “med­ical” in state pro­grams autho­riz­ing the use of psy­che­delics