This week’s near-unanimous vote to expand Iowa’s medical marijuana program continues to be talked about in the media. Our local representative for Iowa State students says she will be introducing an amendment to the hemp bill, House FIle 733. From today’s town hall at Ames City Hall:
“One good thing that did happen in the legislature this week is we did pass an extended medical cannabis bill,” Wessel-Kroeschell said.
The bill would allow for providers to prescribe a higher dosage to patients who are terminally ill.
Hemp production was mentioned by Roger Engstrom, an Ames resident.
“There’s some controversy over hemp and marijuana, and they’re not the same at all,” Engstrom said.
Legislation has been introduced in both houses of the Iowa legislature that would legalize and regulate the hemp industry.
“It is a legitimate agricultural product that would help to diversify our agricultural economy,” Quirmbach said. “The issue there, with regard to marijuana apparently hemp does contain a certain small amount of THC, or some varieties do, and that’s the active ingredient in marijuana.”
Wessel-Kroeschell said she has some constituents who are very upset about enforcement in Story County of hemp CBD oil, and said she would look into adding an amendment to the hemp bill to bring state law in line with federal.
The Story County attorney, Jessica Reynolds, issued an announcement Monday to make sure that residents are aware that CBD oil is unlawful by Iowa Code and should not be sold.
“Federal law allows the use of hemp CBD oil, and state law does not,” Wessel-Kroeschell said. “The Story county attorney issued the order … because they are in compliance with federal law but not state law.”
Iowa law currently allows for patients with certain conditions certified by a physician to purchase CBD oil at one of five state-licensed dispensaries.
Read the full story here courtesy of Iowa State Daily
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