Petition to State of Iowa — create educational classes by end of summer so Iowa doctors stop refusing to certify patients in pain

After the Bleeding Heartland reported on two health giants blocking Iowa patients from the medical cannabis program, patients in Iowa have come together to demand action be taken to resolve the problem. A petition created today at Change.org is linked below. Please sign and share this petition — more patients have been turned away then accepted, because doctors are worried about federal law (Iowa’s program complies with federal law instead of violating it like other states) and more importantly, doctors are worried they haven’t been educated properly by the State. So here we go!

Click here to sign the petition by Jason Karimi

From the petition:

While 250 patients have already been approved, 300 more patients have had no luck in finding doctors for a full year. Doctors throughout Iowa are thoroughly ignorant of endocannabinoid activities, Iowa’s new medical program, and drug interactions between classes of medication.

Other Universities nationwide already have continuing education courses for doctors to study the endocannabinoid system. For our medical professionals in Iowa to understand terpenes, cannabinoids, THC, and other important medical constituents we need the State to give education and guidance. Until this happens patients will continue to be told that doctors won’t sign recommendations, and this disservice to both doctors and patients needs rectified sooner rather than later. Please support our work to bring education to Iowa doctors on the latest endocannabinoid science by signing our petition. We respectfully and gratefully request this be completed by end of August, before December 1st, when products are to be made available as the Board of Pharmacy recommended eight years ago.

Click here to follow WeedPress on Facebook. If you’re a patient who has been denied by your doctor, please join the Facebook private group “Iowa Patience,” where 300 other denied Iowa patients are working together to come up with ideas and solutions for the State of Iowa’s new medical cannabis program that is leading the nation by example. Click here to request to join Iowa Patience, and if you haven’t already, please sign this Change.org petition started by Jason Karimi so we can get an educational class or two set up through the State. See you at the end of the legislative session!