For the second time, a second Iowa judge has ruled that Iowa law authorizes the possession of smokable medical marijuana flower — but only for non-residents from other states.
This is a big deal for the marijuana issue this 2022 legislative session. Why can out of state medical marijuana patients have medical marijuana flower in Iowa, but Iowans cannot? If that’s the way the law now stands, that is patently and fundamentally unfair — not to mention cruel and barbaric to deny life-giving medicine to Iowans, while allowing that very same medicine to out of staters who are visiting Iowans.
Theoretically, a dying Iowan could be sitting in her home, while a friend from out of state visits. The out of state friend can legally use medical marijuana in flower form, but the dying Iowan in her home cannot share that same marijuana. If that doesn’t strike you as wrong, then what would?
Iowans who hold valid medical marijuana cards are still cruelly denied the overwhelmingly preferred option of patients nationwide — flower. Iowans, who live in Iowa, shop at Iowa dispensaries, and pay inflated prices due to the restrictions in the law, are still forbidden from using flower forms of medical cannabis.
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However, as this court ruled, out of state medical marijuana patients can totally possess flower in Iowa. This is a testimony to the shoddy work the Iowa legislature has done on reforming marijuana laws to bring them up to date with modern notions of civil rights and racial equality. Here’s the ruling from January 24 from the Iowa District Court for Cerro Gordo county:
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