Medical Marijuana’s Great (And Odd) Midwest Test: Iowa
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September 6, 2009
Iowa, America’s breadbasket, home to liberal scion Tom Harkin and conservative contrarian Charles Grassley, is vetting the issue of medical marijuana politically like no other previous state has by conducting a series of public testimonies, convened by the Iowa Pharmacy Board (who was ordered by a Polk County judge to do so in April in response to lawsuits brought by medical marijuana patients in Iowa against the IPB).
Two of the first four public hearings have already happened (August 19 in Des Moines and Sept. 2 in Mason City); the next hearings are:
October 7 in Iowa City and November 4, Council Bluffs
At the Mason City hearing on September 2, eight speakers, all but one in favor of medical marijuana law reforms, spoke out against the prohibition of medical marijuana in Iowa.
Des Moines resident and multiple sclerosis patient Ray Lakers, 42, who was jailed for possessing less than a gram of medical marijuana in 2005, spoke of medical marijuana’s utility and benefit to his life. Conversely, Maedene Sappenfield of Mason City spoke out against it in the Globe Gazette, “I have a son-in-law in North Carolina who has MS and he functions without marijuana very well, so it is possible.”
Watch news video of the Mason City hearing here.
The IPB does not have the authority to legalize marijuana for medical use, but it could suggest to lawmakers to move marijuana to a schedule lower than I. In turn, Iowa lawmakers would have to pass amending legislation. An AP article indicates an interesting legislative challenge (some would say ‘poison pill’): “the [IPB] said that the drug [marijuana] would have to be used as treatment in all states for Iowa to reclassify it.”
Keep up with the legal and legislative struggle to bring medical marijuana to Iowa at: http://blog.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/
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Oh! well see i come here and learn stuff everyday.
Thank you. We are in this together. “Together we stand…divided we fall”
The notion that government is out for the good of the populus is a falicy. The government is a man eating machine that is blind to the needs of the people. It’s only goal is control and survival at any cost… “Justice is blind” >>> is now more true then ever. T. Jefferson is probably rolling over in his grave.
Individuals are routinely selected and persecuted for speaking out on subjects the government wants suppressed. The Patriot Act gave them unbridled free licence to wire tap and build files on Americans, with very little actually done towards foreign enemies. I know this is off the track, but I applaud you for collaterally attacking them… this is what they fear the most… especially when they are patently wrong and know it…
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I must be on to something because I actually won in court on April 21. It seems to me like there actually is justice going on here. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.
God’s speed…
It is time that Iowa is known for rational and open mindedness rather than hicks in the sticks wearing bib overhauls. Believe me in other parts of the US and the world, that is the perception.
I know better, that’s why I have lived here 56 years, travelled all over and see what the people of Iowa have to give. Maybe the hard liners have or are being attritioned out of existence >>> or let’s at least hope soon. They are the problem … not the solution.
I don’t know a catchy phrase for good luck in a legal setting… So break a leg. Good luck in court..
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We are exposing their corruption. The Iowa Board of Pharmacy has a duty to review the drug law annually and make recommendations for changes to the Iowa Legislature. The Board of Pharmacy has just sat on its hands while 13 states have enacted medical marijuana laws and haven’t even suggested reviewing marijuana’s classification in Iowa. That is a total breach of duty owing to the citizens of Iowa. They have been exposed and today they will be further exposed as a front for the big pharmaceutical companies to put profits ahead of the health and welfare of the Iowa citizens.
Good morning Carl…
Hope all is well at ground zero. Been kinda quite on the home front since the Iowa Board of Pharmacy lacks any crediability.
I have been doing some work as it relates to Iowa’s use/abuse of administrative laws. They make claim that all 50 states must adhere to the same laws, when in fact they selectively abuse the constitution by claiming certain actions they bring against citizens are a “right” they have, as the levy is against abuse of a priveldge, not a matter of law; all the while individuals are also being prosecuted in a criminal court. FAR from 50 states abuse it’s citizenry this way…
Too many constitutional issuses to list here right now. Simply put VERY few states adhere to this double prosecution standard. It originated in Louisanna under French/Cajun law…way out in the ozone law. Iowa uses it to generate cash flow at the expense of it’s citizenry…they levy HUGE fines and unequitable sentences as a DOUBLE punishment. Only about 4 states use such draconian means to fill their coffers.
I may use the Iowa Board of Pharmacies ass backwards legal logic to attack the administrative laws in Iowa.
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Anything to do with controlled substances begins at the state level. Read Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 243 (2006), and the appeal court and district court rulings in that case. It lays out the entire scheme of the federal drug law, which does not define accepted medical use. Accepted medical use is defined by the state. The first thing the Iowa Board of Pharmacy tried to tell me is that federal law prevents the state from rescheduling. Iowa rescheduled marijuana in 1979 and again in 1987, proving it knows damn well it is not bound by federal scheduling. They stepped right into the tar baby and got stuck. It was so easy, I didn’t even have to work hard to get them to expose their blatant ignorance of the law.
ThanX Carl…
Being a life long resident of Iowa I can tell you of the good ole boy rule here. Until the state is challenged it is business as usual to attach exorbinate fines, jail sentences way out of proportion to the offense, deny citizens protection under both the state and federal constituions. As I had previously mentioned their use of “administrative law’ and phoney marijuana “tax stamps” is but one of many…
This goes in many directions, their “drug tax stamp’ to impose a “civil”/”administrative fine” on top of any criminal charges and/or fines is just one of many. They will impose a “civil” fine just because they say they can >> because you don’t have a permit which the disclaimer on the application form openly admits the tax stamp is worthless. Their intent is VERY clear here,to sell you a worthless piece of paper claiming to exempt you from “civil fines” all the while to bilk money out of people through duel prosecution.
The Iowa DOT is even worse, you can be innocent in a court of law but guilty in “their” court and be fined, forced to jump through “their” hoops, lose you licence, pay huge insurance fees, with NO LEGAL STANDING. Their hiding behind driving is a priviledge BS. They make extreemely short appeal times (couple days), much like the federal conviscation laws. You are never allowed a court appearance, only a call in hearing with their judge who only works for them. “The fox guarding the hen house”.
When you PAY for a licence, you PAY for state and federal gas/road use tax,you PAY for a rubber tax on new tires, you PAY for car insurance, you PAY for licence plates, this extends beyond a “priveledge”, it denies you the right to earn a living.
The state receives $200 million plus a year in FEDERAL road use tax monies. There are no 50 state federal mandates allowing the DOT the “rights” above and beyond the law and the federal constitution; they claim to have the “right” to deprive citizens of their use of federally funded/supported transportation systems, all the while they are violating the federal constitution and grabbing all the federal dollars they can get their hands on to abuse and misrepresent the Federal constitution… Somewhat of a conudrum to the medical marijuana issue.
Iowa is infamous for their abuse of “civil penalties” to rob the citizens into suppression; the DCI, DOT, DNR… nearly every Iowa state agency abuses the system.. This is their new TEA TAX/CASH COW system…
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH… EVERY state agency in Iowa is deep in the tar, but way in the RED by incompenency… I am about as far to the right when it comes to love of this country but off the scale to the left when it comes to OUR inalienable rights as OWNERS of this country >>> time to take back what is already ours…
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I have an extremely narrow focus – marijuana. I’m sure that the Board of Pharmacy is not the only administrative agency abusing its power in the state of Iowa, but it’s the only agency I’m dealing with. I’m proving that you can hold them accountable, but it’s no easy thing to do. If you look at the amount of work I’ve put into this, you’re looking at the amount of work it would likely take to challenge any administrative agency in Iowa. If you feel up to the task, go for it. It won’t change unless people do something about it. I’m doing something about it. I can’t do everything. I’m doing what I think is a priority. I hear people talk all the time, but I don’t see many of them doing anything about it. People look at what I’m doing and start telling me all kinds of stuff I could be doing. Sorry, I’m just one person and I can only do so much. I hope my success will encourage others, but its taken me 30 years of legal research to get this far. You won’t just slap a legal argument together in a couple days. It takes a tremendous amount of work.
True and everyone appreciates your tireless work. Much of the case law and approach has the same merits against adminstrative law abuses in Iowa. I have a major law firm working for me which is handling this and other civil issuses.
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Carl, I applaud your work. I have to admit the first time I read your name I thought “Garrison Keillor and Norwegian bachelor farmers.”
It sounds like you have their mythical tenacity.
What is not so obvious is they (the people opposing us) do this so they can be assuredly called outrageous hypocrites that neither follow the Bible nor God nor our Founding Documents. And they are busy fulfilling all the worst aspects of the King the founding fathers cut their ties with.
In the Declaration of Independence it clearly states their disgust with these historical and updated parallels
• a long list of abuses of power
• endless legal hurdles imposed on them, strictly to wear them out
• repeated power grabs pushing towards tyranny
• the creation of a multitude of offices that consume all our resources
• the military has definitely become superior to civilian authority
• SWAT teams are practically standing armies, above the law
• the military and SWAT definitely are protected with mock trials and wrist slaps
• and on and on…
Nearly everything the colonists were disgusted with in King George has long been the case in modern times, and only getting worse!
Here’s my effort to bring our Founding Documents in to a modern expression:
http://NewOldSalt.com/USA_Declaration_of_Independence
You’re going the distance. Glad to hear you’ve not given up.
I agree about the abuses of power, but I’m proving that something can be done about it. I won in court in April, and the Iowa Board of Pharmacy announced two weeks ago that it is going to recommend legalization of marijuana for medical use in Iowa. That’s a couple of victories in a row and I still have my civil case pending against the Board. If I can do all of that, then so can others. I’m proving that peaceful, non-violent resistance still works the way our founding fathers intended it to work when they established the form of government hoping that they had just fought a war that others would not have to fight again. I do have to fight, but my weapons are words not bullets.
You Rock Carl. I was reminded this morning of one of my heros Dr. Martin Luther King jr. he stood up for people that were being opressed he stood up for people that would be prosecuted for standing up for themselfs he used hes words his knowledge and his love of what was right and fair to change how people treated blacks the same way you are helping change the way people think about pot smokers instead of being opressed for our skin color we have been opressed and for our beliefs.
It is nice to see a president with the balls to stand up and say enough to the DEA thugs. President Obama issed a clarification on the state laws vs. federal medical marijuana laws allowing the use without federal intervention in states where it is legal. IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME!
Maybe now the country can actual heal it’s spirit as well…
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I’m speaking to a group of pain specialists, doctor and nurses, Wednesday evening. I just did an interview with the largest radio station in Iowa. Things are moving fast. WooHoo!
@ 114 Jackal, “… the balls to stand up and say enough to the DEA thugs…”
Interesting timing. I’d been meaning for a while to crank out this essay. I finally published it today:
The Moral Failings of Thug Addicts
http://ChristiansAgainstProhibition.org/The_Moral_Failings_of_Thug_Addicts
Although for sure, as I point out in the essay, there are thugs in many of the social strata of society.
Everyone nneds to appreciate Carl. Apathy is killing this country. Just how in the hell do you think the Patriot Act and all the other governmental abuses of power persist?
We are becoming a captive society until people like Carl put their well being and effort to support ALL of us. The Framers had the same introspection and balls…
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Holly crap i totaly agree ive got S.S and DHS runing through my house like im a freakin soup kitchen not that i dont like the people realy i think i could probly hang out with the family advocate ,but i dont care for the reason their in my house and i have told them that exact thing i have argueed my point and said what i think and belive, and yet sadly that is all i can do if i continue to express my feelings on the subject i fear they will take my kids which i would honestly turn into a raging maniac without and probly just kill my damn neighbor “crak head” as he is i do thank carl and very muchly apreciate him and the work he is doing thank you Carl you freakin rock and BTW why the heck insnt anybodyels commmenting why are you people scared and what are you scared of now is the time to state your gosh darn oppinion so state it …. peace ..
The thing is the “agencies” of the State of Iowa still just don’t get it. Marijuana for medical use will soon no longer be a “crime”, it will happen VERY soon. For the state “agencies” to try and do their big last round up just isn’t going to fly.
The State can honor their obilgations or face belittlement in the eyes of the nation… The choice shouldn’t be that hard…
The ass backwards mental images of the “Reefer Madness” era funded by the big tobacco companies is dead, so let’s bury it NOW…
If the “agencies” of the State of Iowa want to have an onslought of law suits against them for abusing persons constitutional and civil rights… they most certainly will be accomidated.
Now is the time for the state to embrace President Obama’s recent mandate on medical marijuana and realize, their threats/tactics will no longer be sanctioned or tolerated.
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Peace Be With You… Carl
Just a thought..
It was totally laughable while reading a drug propaganda blurb.
Marijuana is a “gateway” drug, we have all heard that BS.
There is no empirical, quantitative or qualitative data to support that crap.
Like saying if you eat a McDonald’s you are forever doomed to be a whale… get real you stupid F’s… YOU >> the ones who have manipuilated the peaceful US population for FAR too long.
Then in further inquiries the “federal drug czar” makes the same asinine inimical response statements, legalization isn’t in his vocabulary >>> He needs to go… he’s part of the problem >> not the solution..
People, we >> YOU own the government…they work for us, not vice versa.. use peaceful means just as Carl has and make things right…
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Earth Calling Carl or Anybody??
Did you all fall of the edge? No chatter or anyone give a shit? Carl did all the work and no responses? This is far from a done deal. The powers that be simply don’t like us, they are old school >>> Big Red Scare, but they still don’t like us, they want their way or no way.
Your voice needs to be heard, they obviously read this blog…So say what you think…
OK so get this 12:30 today on channel 13 the anounced that they are cutting funding for treatment facilities no more will treatments help marijuana users or alchool abusers only meth addicts what dose that leave ??? the only option marijuana users had when busted was prison or treatment now theres no more treatment so now what? straight to prison? or decriminalization ? it seems tho are the only 2 option left with the budget crisses in iowa either we spend even more money on inprisoning marijuana users wich it will cost more then a treatment center or to help this crises by ooohh say selling a pack of joints which will regulat it and tax the freakin heck out of it it may seem extrem but thats all thats left extreems so either the right thing is done or we go further in debt by increasing the war on drugs because i tell you i like MANY people have been following all this pretty close and thoses are the only options that are left so now what ? can Iowa take the right road or will we head down a dead end again?
Glad to see there are still people out there breathing and reading this…
Maybe it is a signal that the rehab of pot smokers is way over rated. It’s kinda like having a bible thumper at your door and you’ll be healed …BS. Pot is not a “gateway drug”, people who are prone to abuse do/are >>> food, sex, porno, you name it. Pot surely can be abused but it doesn’t suck you in like a vacuum cleaner and nail your ass to the wall like crank, heroin or crack.
The reality is “pot should not be termed in the “WAR on DRUGS” it leaves a bad taste in peoples mouths”. It’s the dauh factor >>> I don’t know any pot smokers who go out and rape and pillage >>> all they want is to be peacefully left alone.
But then you have the old regime hard liners, drink straight whiskey, smoke cigars and kick your woman and your dog in whatever order >> it’s all good >>> NOT.
Wise up you reds who read this >>> every country where pot is legal or quasi-legal their crime rate goes down in relationship to related crimes. People enjoy being alive and being left alone.
So what if the government taxes pot, it helps everybody as long as it’s reasonable. California stands to make up to $2.5 billion dollars a year from a $25 a ounce tax >>>pay it and get on with it. Just like booze >> you drink you pay it.
Studies are that in Iowa it could yield up to $200,000,000 in new tax revenue. OK add that to not housing prisoners for BS pot charges and trying to “rehab” them and it probably would double.
The change is a coming…
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ok so lets hope and pray that iowa is greedy and desprate huummmmm yea sounds about right mabey its iowas sins that will save the good peacefull people of this state as it states in the bible the mighty shall fall and the meek shall inherit the earth, im ready for my peace on earth.
ok so Gay Marrage is leagle in iowa awsum good for them to get thier persuit to happiness and be free for it. Abortion a womens right to chose i agree you should be free to do with your body as you chose. i myself will not ever choose either for myself im not gay and i choose life but that dosent mean im going to go around and tell other people how they should or should not do things. dose that mean then that other people can tell Me how to persue My happiness NO it dose not but they are it seems everybody els gets thier rights respected but i cant do with my body as i choose im a women i choose life for my son now im being called a child abuser because i choose my rights to be in effect mothers body over a fetus not here not for me im wronge im bad im terrable well i say screw you if you think that your wronge !
It is good to see at least one person keeps up with the posts.
This significant issue is the bona-fide medical use of marijuana for pain relief and other benifits. The government don’t give a shit about your body or your rights to it. They see the individual as their cash machine. If you can make them money being alive, what good are you?
This comes back to the bona-fide use as a medicinal treatment, even the DEA’s own judge has testified marijuana is the safest known form of treatment for a wide range of medical problems based on it’s THC, CBD, CBN and other components.
There has never been one recorded over dose in recorded history due to marijuana, while the big drug companies kill a couple hundred thousand a year; both with prescription and over the counter “drugs”.
The MLD for marijuana you would have to consume SIX (6) pounds orally or over 100 grams of pure THC. NEVER happened and NEVER will.
It’s all about money, people just pay the tax and make the boogie man go away…
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The newspapers are now reporting that the Iowa Legislature will be too busy with budget cuts and a reduction of 20 days in the legislative session to take up the issue of medical marijuana.
cant they just leave it to a vote for the people of iowa to decside isnt our vote anyways put it on a balot and let us vote on it.
Typical BS…
People >>> spend the $100 >>> you should go buy pot tax stamps from the State of Iowa, bring a thousand lawsuits agianst the state for bad faith and malice.
Push for a civil tax for anyone busted to be given to NORMAL to support decrimilaztion, MADD does it and who authorized that? They are not a government agency but you are DEMANDED to pay them…
Go to another state where it is legal and get a prescription, if you are busted here make a Federal challenge and force the Federal government to step up to the plate and end this BS. It is BS like this that is eating this country up from the inside out…
The simple fact of the matter, they are not too busy. They are grand standing with placebo BS lies, TOO BUSY >>> well then maybe you are in the wrong line of work, do alittle overtime. Especially considering they make 3-4 times what the average Iowan does and have FREE health care..!!!
The budget cuts are done by others than the legislature, they discuss and rubber stamp their desicions based on the recommendations of others.
The Board of Regents sets their own cuts as does every state agency once they are given notification of their budget cuts for the upcoming fiscal period.
When the state of Iowa would stand to have a new source of revenue in the $200,000,000 range who are trying to shit!!
Address it now and have $200,000,000 plus to add to the black in the states budget.. That would be too easy and the “good ole boys” wouldn’t get their antiquated way..
Not to mention they would probably save a like amount from their BS pot prosecutions, prisoner housings and “rehab”.
This state is becoming a joke… and they wonder why when students grad they leave!!!
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Where else in Iowa does the government stand to have revenue of $200,000,000 plus nearly immediately dumped into their budget????
Surely not going to be the movie industry since they blew that from corruption and graff!!!!
Kind of reminds me of 1937 when the American Medical Association opposed the Marihuana Tax Act. Congress passed it anyway. And, again in 1972 when the Commission on Marihuana recommended decriminalization for person use and distribution without profit. Congress ignored the findings of the Commission. And, again in 1988 when the DEA’s Chief Administrative Law Judge said marijuana was extremely safe for use under medical supervision and the DEA Administrator rejected those findings. So, here we are in Iowa, in 2009 about ready to get a favorable ruling from the Iowa Board of Pharmacy and the Iowa Legislature says it will not consider legalizing marijuana for medical use in 2010. Deja Vu, isn’t it?
thing change and mabey the argument should change with it like just flat out legalization and taxation if they want to talk about money we can do that to just because they are trying to go around the subject dosent mean they will be able to. keep up the good work carl im sure this will all count it already says that the pharma board is willing to break the law and that the gov is going to just let them get away with it now we know it must go deeper the curuption is like and infection in the body we need to be able to heal it from the inside .
Anyone and everyone you know who is busted for pot in Iowa who is above 18 years old get their names; send them to Carl (yea Crl I need a way to communicate outside of this forum with you), a data base needs to be started and challenge EVERY DAMN ONE!!
The STATE will soon be inundated with court cases, law suits and reamed in the court of PUBLIC OPINION >>> WORLD WIDE.
Reds are you ready for this, you seem to think you own the power >>> the POWER is in the PEOPLE deligated by the CONSTITUTION which was written by MARIJUANA USERS >>> just who in the hell do you think you are >>> and Senator Grassley you need to get real or retire with your BS comments >>> “gateway drug” show us some facts!!!
It’s really SAD that these dinasoars can spend us into the ground with their OLD SCHOOL BS.
BUT are afraid of change, it’s common to be afraid of change, BUT when you use fiction rather then FACT to ATTEMPT to make your POINT, you are the FOOL and are HIDING behind a lie and another lie >>> WHEN WILL YOU QUIT LIEING??
YOU are TOO busy or SORRY WE CAN’T GET TO IT this session BC we have our HRS CUT >> who pays you, who provides your FREE health insurance while millions HAVE NONE!!! maybe get a life??
>>> you lame MF’rs >>> YOU are what is dragging this country down.
Think about it, YOU the TOO BUSY PEOPLE… more than likely are a product of the SIXTES i.e “the the baby boomers” >>> the mind explosion happened then.
Gates, Murdock, Jessie Jackson, Martin Luther King >>> yada yada 60′s and 70′s then came “Reganonics” and the drug war>> you lost that one 20 years ago but won’t admit it! WHAT FOOLS. AFTER that then came captive corporate AMERICA is the way of life….
To DICTATE medical use or any use to a LEGAL CONSENTING ADULTS mind to make a FREE WILL CHOICE to do or use anything in their own home and not harm anyone else is NOT a right of the government. SHOW ME WHERE YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT >>> ISN’T there is it?? YOU INVENTED IT!!!
You want a line in the sand LET’S DO IT >>>> ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
I LOVE IT feels like the spark that carl has made could stay lit that way. im not ready to stop feeling like my god giving freedoms could be justifyably restored they are trying to push you under the rug carl and SHAME on them for that you have sparked a fire under thier asses and they are scared because you have also sparked a fire in iowas heart to the core people are not ready for this to go away this is an issue of our constitutional rights and freedoms this is an issue not just of marijuana its about the american people being pussed to the way side so that crooked politions like Grassley can make thier own rules without giving a hoot what the american people think this kind of coruption needs to stop the american people HAVE lost faith in thier government and its our job to restore it by fighting the system like carl has been doing and if its ok with carl i will do that which you sugested jackle but i do feel like i need permission first so carl if your ok with continuing the fight you are the lead for all iowans in this sequence of events the fire is still lite lets make a freaking bonfire out of it.
ok ive just writen a letter to the white house and i sugest anybody els reading this do the same be respectfull and polite he is our president and hes the only one in history to acctualy read some of his email if we do it right and respectfully mabey we can go over iowas head and go straight to the top peace and love and fighing the best i can K.J.
No permission needed… you have the same rights as every man woman and child in this country.
The FEDERAL CONSTITUTION does not give the state or federal government the right to INVENT LAWS, when there is no empirical data to support that marijuana harms society, or is a “gateway drug”. ESPECIALLY when it has been shown for 10,000 years to have been used as a medicinal treatment. Do the math 10,000 years and the US has only been in existence for 200+ years, with a marijuana law on the books for only 70 years>>> 9,930 years of PROVEN TRACK RECORD as a benificial medicinal medication. WAKE UP YOU OLD FOOLS…
NOW we need paper work and court cases. I think a couple of the most viable approaches are to 1.) buy Iowa pot tax stamps to cover 1 oz. (about $100) 2.) go to one of the states where it is legal, pay the $150 for a prescription. If you are busted in Iowa take it into FEDERAL court system, by the hundreds…
If you buy prescription from a state licenced doctor in one state and you travel to another with “drugs” from a “drug company” you aren’t persecuted or prosecuted!! BIG MONEY AT IT’S BEST…
This state seems to take 1 step forward and 10 steps bac…
I’m not sure what I’m being asked to do. I’m doing what I need to be doing. Run that by me again. I don’t get paid for what I do. If your suggestion involves resources I don’t have, I suggest you contact NORML first and see if they have any resources.
I believe Jackal keeps telling people to send their money to NORML. It would not make any sense to send the money to NORML and then ask me to do the work. I don’t get any financial assistance from NORML.
NORMAL should step up then and provide you some finacial and legal help as should everyone in this state. How do they do that?
Iowans for Medical Marijuana
c/o Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
Post Office Box 4091
Des Moines, Iowa 50333
http://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org
http://www.ethiopianzioncopticchurch.org
Donations are not tax deductible
both web sites have PayPal buttons
ok so this is kinda of subject but kinda on subject i was looking up karma and basicly just having bad luck with life i read a post that was realy insperational the end quote carl is for you … Many men fail because they dont realize how close to succes they are.. if your feeling like the legislature has made this a futile effort just keep in mind you are soooooooo close to succeding that they want you to think this was a failure. But no matter what they say this was a succes on your part and all thoses people that spoke up so stay positive this will all be well worth it.. sorry if im way off just thought i should tell sombody that awsum quote peace outy..
im sure everybody already knows about this the AMA has changed its stand on medical marijuana now saying that is has accepted medical value and that it needs to be rescedualed from a scedual 1 so that more reaserch can be done on it , all i have to say is about time if the AMA says its a medicine then no state or government law can say its simply a drug its a medicine simple as that as far as the converstations ive been having with people aperently the AMA is the foundation of the drug czars arguments againts marijuana saying that they dont recognize it niether dose he , Well Well look at that i guess his arguments need to change with this change from the AMA his arguments are baisless
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1272/95/34417/ama-gives-medical-marijuana-boost.html
I have been studying state, federal, and international drug law for a long time and one of the things I’ve learned is that coca leaves and opium poppy are both in Schedule II even though they have no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. The DEA claims they were put there because useful pharmaceutical drugs are made from them. When I suggested that Marinol could be made from marijuana, the DEA responded by saying that Marinol is made from synthetic delta-9-THC so it does not come from the marijuana plant. If you look at the scientific literature, it says delta-9-THC is the principle psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. It even says that in the Federal Register when Marinol was scheduled by the DEA (to Schedule II in 1986 and to Schedule III in 1999). And, of course, the HHS now has a patent on extracted cannabinoids since 2003. So, the case for removing marijuana from federal Schedule I has been strong since at least 2003, if not 1986. This AMA recommendation should be the final piece, but I’m not sure the DEA will just do this voluntarily. It would be really great if some brave state filed a notice with the DEA telling the DEA that marijuana now has accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and that it no longer meets the requirements for inclusion in Schedule I. The federal law says “in the United States” and the last time I counted there were 50 of them. One of those states should step forward and assist the DEA in doing the right thing.
Well it will be interested what position will be taken on the 10:00 news from Cedar Rapids on Medical marijuana. With the state making back peddling positions now they have lost their court battles. They now take the position we need more time… BS, they have had 70 years…get the cob webs out you your ass!
There is NO plausable reason not to legalize it and create a new source of revenue and quit making people suffer and live in fear!!
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH… Old schoolers quit playing games with adult persons lives!!!
One of the states where they have legalized it should step up…their foot and their whole body :>) is already in the door…
The DEA is out of control, the mentality that we will fight a “war” over something that shouldn’t be an issue is just showing what arcayic assholes are in charge. They have been asleep at the wheel for years. Let the Afganies raise opium because we don’t want to piss thewm off and make heroin to kill peole around the world, people in the US by the thousands. Real good plan guys, you should quit your day job!!!.
I recently read an article about a NYC high school where their prom committee has a program to address heroin at prom >>> what the FUCK are you DEA people thinking?? POT has NEVER KILLED ANYONE FROM AN OVERDOSE IN 7000 plus years!!!But SUPPORT HEROIN…
my grandpa worked for the government for 40years as a mathmatichin he lived in every state but florida and washington he was a briliant man a genius in math he would never tell anybody exactly what he was doing for the government but he told us all not to trust the government they were more corupt then any crook he and my grandma took in over 100 foster kids and had 7 kids of thier own ALL of us were toght this from a man that gave his life to the government i think we all wanted to make it better we need to be able to trust our government we need to be able to serve or work for the government and trust that we are in the company of good people and a good and just system the system is corupt the people in the system are corupt were finaly getting people in offices that grew up not trusting the government and wanting to make it better my hope is that i will not have to give my grand kids the same speach we all got. peace
Well I would start writing your speach.
When there are reams of files that support medical marijuana’s use, it has only been illegal for 70 years..
They sure as hell could have done as much research as was ever needed there are NO KNOWN OVERDOSES in 7000 years, when there are people (Iowa Board of Pharmacy), who made opening statements before any hearings were ever heard that they were against it, there is a DEA head who simply doesn’t honor the facts,but the DEA judge does recommend rescheduling or legalization.
When the local Cedar Rapids TV station puts a “professional” who publically states medical marijuana is a “GATEWAY DRUG” >>> she needs to get her shit straight and substanciate her lies to the media with hard cold facts >>> not her ASSUMPTIONS.
BIG MAC’s are a gateway food!!! GET REAL, if you have tendencies to abuse you will abuse something >> food, sex, alcohol, you name it >>> GATEWAY what a joke…
Someone who misrepresents the facts to the public in their position of POWER, should be fired and removed. THEY ARE THE PROBLEM >>> NOT THE SOLUTION…
how bout this when it is finaly ligalized regulated and taxed we have a Freedom party and ill make the potato salad.
“If wishes were fishes… we’d have a fry”.
I have all but given up on the fact that OUR government is HONEST and CARES about the PEOPLE, who OWN IT. You/we are just figments in their imagination of POWER.