Iowa’s U.S. House and Senate delegation is failing to protect medical marijuana patients

Iowa medical marijuana patients need more protection from federal laws, and our elected lawmakers have a duty to provide said protection. However, Iowa’s federal lawmakers are currently allowing their neighbors who use marijuana to be victimized by federal drug laws, in spite of a law Iowa lawmakers passed to fix this federal situation. Wheels are being spun rather than real work being done.

Gazette Reporter Adam Sullivan sounds this warning in the Gazette:

“Iowa officials are spinning their wheels in the effort to get an exemption from federal marijuana prohibition…It makes a complete mockery out of federalism when 47 states representing about 98 percent of the U.S. population allow some legal medical access to a plant that is recognized by the federal government as having no medical value and a high potential for abuse.”

— Adam Sullivan, The Gazette, August 30 2021

Read why Iowa is both ahead of the nation in gaining federal protection for state marijuana patients in the full article from the Gazette: “Iowa’s U.S. House and Senate delegation is failing to protect medical marijuana patients.”

Thanks yet again to reporter Adam Sullivan’s persistent and detailed coverage of this injustice.