Iowa 2023 Annual Report: Sales, Patient Count, Trends

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Medical Cannabidiol – 2023 Annual Report, 2024 Meeting DatesLinked below please find the 2023 Medical Cannabidiol Board Annual Report. It contains the Board’s recommendations for program improvement, as well as activities of the Board and program data from throughout calendar year 2023: 2023 Medical Cannabidiol Board Annual Report

The Office of Medical Cannabidiol Iowa Department of Public Health | (515) 725-2076  | 321 E. 12th St | Des Moines, IA 50319 medical.cannabidiol@idph.iowa.gov | idph.iowa.gov/omc

The 8th recommendation from the Board in the report:

8. SEEK A FEDERAL EXEMPTION FOR IOWA’S PROGRAM
   The Board recommends that a task force of legal experts be authorized, similar to the current
   board of medical experts, to assist the Department in navigating the legal issues involved with
   requesting an exemption for Iowa’s program from necessary Federal agencies. This is related to
   a recommendation in the Board’s 2019 Annual Report and the passage of HF2589 in June 2020.

The 5th recommendation:

5. IOWA TAX STATUS: LICENSEE EQUALITY WITH TRADITIONAL
BUSINESSES
In an effort to reduce the tax burden placed on plant-touching cannabis operators in light of the
Federal schedule I status of cannabis, the Board recommends decoupling Iowa’s tax code from
Section 280E of the federal tax code for individual and corporate tax purposes. Iowa’s tax code
“couples” or matches the federal tax code unless the state actively decouples it. Senate File
2157 was introduced in 2022 and provides a template pathway.

The 7th recommendation:

7. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PATIENT PROVIDER RELATIONSHIP, AND
   OVERSIGHT OF TELEHEALTH CONSULTATIONS
   The Board has expressed concern with telehealth providers who may not be maintaining
   patient-provider relationships with patients they are certifying, or do not establish care with
   patients in the traditional sense. The Board recommends the citation of the Board of Medicine’s
   rules around standards of practice for telemedicine (653 IAC 13.11(7)) in Chapter 124E.