Iowa Employee Receives Warning Email From CEO: CBD Is Illegal And You Will Be Fired

“I’m here because my CEO, um, made it an announcement that CBD is illegal. And I was taking that, and I was healthy.”

— Iowan Mike Nixon, Valentine’s day medical cannabidiol advisory board hearing public testimony

This public testimony comes from Iowa Veteran Mike Nixon. You can read his full story here:

[TRANSCRIPT] Iowa Cannabidiol Advisory Board Meeting, Full Transcript, 2-14-20
Last Friday, on Valentine’s day, an Iowa man testified to the Iowa Medical Cannabis Advisory board that his CEO at his company had stated that CBD was illegal, forcing him to stop taking CBD. Mike does not have a medical cannabis card at the time of this writing. Users who use Iowa’s medical cannabis program who use CBD in accordance with state law, however, are also not protected from criminal prosecution or job loss due to federal law.

Here’s what Iowan Mike Nixon had to say.

I’m here because my CEO, um, made it an announcement that CBD is illegal. And I was taking that, and I was healthy.

My name is Mike Nixon, I’m just a guy off the street. I don’t have any papers with me. I am a ex-Navy C. I joined the service when I was 16 years old, left the day I turned 17 on a delayed entry program. My first deployment was Guantanamo Bay Cuba as a Haitian-Cuban defector guard. I worked closely with the CIA and the token various defectors from other countries, Cuba, Haitia, and Asian villages, and we interrogated them. That was my first exposure at 17 years old.

I have been to Lebanon, Beirut, I’ve been to Grenada, I’ve seen a lot of conflict, and have been involved in a lot of conflict. I have been diagnosed with PTSD. That’s what I’m here for today. I have no horse in this race but as far as THC and you know, medical marijuana, I don’t have a horse in that race. I just wanted to explain to you the medicines that I take for the PTSD and what they do to me.

I take Deloxatine, I take Miniprex, I take another Benzo, I don’t even know what the name of it is. I have lorazepam with me wherever I am and am going to be. I am never without it. I do have a job, I am high functioning. I’m a director of IT and I code for a living, and I have to keep my mind busy to keep my mind off everything else in my past. I have not had a good night’s sleep probably since 1984. Um, I wake up at 2 o’clock every morning, nightmares. I know what death smells like. I know what war feels like. I know what conflict feels like. And the reason I did that is to stop everybody else in this room from having to experience that, and my children from experiencing that. I made a sacrifice for my family and my fellow citizens. So, I don’t blame anybody for what I have. PTSD is mine, I own it. But the medication makes me rock in my chair, it wakes me up every night at 2 o’clock, it makes me jitter, it gives me little lightning bolts from this side or that side of my eyes, it causes me pain down the right side of my body. And if I don’t take it, I am very quick to anger. I fight with everybody, I’ve been to jail because the medicine controls it, and PTSD is something that it it it it’s just a (keys jangle). I fight with my wife, I argue with my kids if I don’t take it, so I have to take it. I haven’t, I haven’t, it affects my love life with my wife. It affects my ability to go somewhere by myself. I can’t really travel.

I love CBD. It works good, but then –

Moderator: We’re at the three minutes. You wanna wrap it up real quick?
Mike: Ok so. I’m here because my CEO, um, made it an announcement that CBD is illegal. And I was taking that, and I was healthy. But now I have to rely more on the medicine that causes all these nasty side effects, because I can’t take the CBD anymore, so anyway that’s what I’m here for. I know you guys have a problem with understanding, you know, who gets PTSD or somebody that’s served in the military so.

Moderator: Alright we’re done.

Carl Olsen: Thank you for your service.

Moderator: Thank you everyone for your information and opinions. We appreciate you sharing that with us today. We’re going to move up to item five on the agenda. Petitions to add qualifying conditions. Sarah Reisetter, Deputy Director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, is here today to lead our discussion and consideration of petitions listed on today’s agenda. Thank you Sarah.

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