Couldn’t Sleep, Came Up With This Draft For Des Moines City Council Speech On Monday

Decriminalize Des Moines City Council Speech Draft

My Grandpa taught at Grand View University for 30 years after serving in World War II. An alcoholic who drank a six pack a day and smoked two packs a day, he died. I never met him, and never knew what he thought about marijuana.

Along with the multinational petroleum and weapons/intelligence industries of the military-industrial complex, the global narcotics trade is one the biggest businesses in the world. It is fueled and enabled by the intersection of drug money, intelligence and money laundering on a vast scale by banks and financial institutions. Researchers have connected the dots linking the “underworld” of organized crime (narcotics) to the “upperworld” of the Establishment (Wall Street banks and CFR-connected corporations/foundations/media).

In 2016, our targeted five year plan at Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana called for educating lawmakers on the need for decriminalization and, more importantly for end user consumer patients in Iowa, regulation and court protections from unscrupulous drug dealers, called for decriminalization initiatives being brought forward in the Presidential election year of 2020. I’m glad to see our intuition was correct. Please do not waste this opportunity. Studying drug policy has been the most thrilling aspect of my political advocacy career, even more thrilling than when I refereed the Des Moines Menace, or got recruited to travel nationally and reviewed for the FIFA soccer program as a top ten candidate in the state for up and coming referees, a feat that absolutely destroys the myth of the marijuana user being incapable of achieving their goals. In my case, marijuana was absolutely necessary to achieve my goals, and I would not have gone so far in my soccer career without it as an athletic aide. Decriminalization done hastily without thorough and committed ongoing research and personal investment and passion will leave much to be desired. For that reason I urge the council to make a task force that reviews marijuana laws, and their impact on drug usage rates, youth rates, and other key variables on an annual basis. As someone who has worked intensely on this issue for 12 years I will volunteer whatever I can to help work to resolve this problem that has been ignored and scoffed at by people who I now know do indeed know better, so thank you all for finally joining us at the table in the discussion to end the world’s largest global criminal commodity market, and I would respectfully encourage the annual task force, as well as this important task force, to involve the addiction counseling community, especially addiction counselors educated on psychedelic integration techniques and holistic practices. Dealing with the root cause of drug addiction, which is lack of connection, does not require wars on privacy, liberty, medicine and freedom. Moving forward we expect real results, as we are confident once this issue is taken seriously by academics that you will all reach the exact same conclusion we have. Thank you.