Featured Analysis
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No. 14 – The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context
The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context By Jason Karimi | WeedPress Policy Series No 14 March 24, 2026 I. Introduction As previewed in WeedPress White Paper No. 1, South Dakota adopted its Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) in 1970 as part of a broader…
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RFRA: A Case Law Survey
These RFRA cases show the recurring doctrinal questions courts ask: substantial burden, exhaustion, factual specificity, and whether courts—not agencies alone—may recognize exceptions. Oklevueha Native Am. Church of Haw., Inc. v. Lynch, 828 F.3d 1012, 1016–17 (9th Cir. 2016) (“RFRA itself provides no explicit definition of ‘substantial burden.’ However, we have held that the meaning of…
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Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny
Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny Why take a detour to get to strict scrutiny when you don’t need to? State RFRA may be inferior to a world where Smith is overruled, but in actual cannabis litigation it is usually superior to relying on Smith exceptions alone. By Jason Karimi |…
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Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions
Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 Before peyote exemptions were narrowed into modern statutory categories, the issue was simpler: people were being prosecuted for practicing their religion. That is what People v. Woody was about. In 1964, the California Supreme Court reversed peyote convictions…
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1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption
1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 A 1995 NARF Legal Review article states it plainly: “Nebraska state law never provided an exemption for the religious use of peyote by Indians.” The article explains that this created a practical problem in Nebraska. Native American Church members…
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The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983?
The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983? A major strategic question is emerging in religious-cannabis litigation, and it is bigger than any one state. If a Rastafarian plaintiff is challenging marijuana restrictions as applied to religious use, what is the best vehicle: a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or 42 U.S.C.…
Policy
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South Dakota DOH Avoids the Merits on Cannabis Scheduling, Hides Behind Procedure
South Dakota DOH Avoids the Merits on Cannabis Scheduling, Hides Behind Procedure The Department of Health did not defend cannabis Schedule I status on the merits. It said Jason Karimi used the wrong procedural vehicle, declined to resolve the statutory conflict, and left the core contradiction untouched. By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 19, 2026…
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Cannabis Federalism After Medical Recognition
Cannabis Federalism After Medical Recognition Administrative Record, Rational Basis, and Vertical Separation of Powers Jason KarimiWeedPress White Paper No. 1March 17 2026 ⸻ Executive Summary Federal acknowledgment that cannabis has “currently accepted medical use” under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) would not merely reclassify a substance. It would recalibrate the constitutional and evidentiary framework within…
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Nebraska Voters Approved Medical Cannabis. Now Protect the Doctors Who Make It Possible
Nebraska Voters Approved Medical Cannabis. Now Protect the Doctors Who Make It Possible Nebraska voters spoke when they approved medical cannabis. But a medical program cannot exist without doctors willing to recommend it. Right now, Nebraska law does not provide basic protections for physicians who choose to recommend cannabis to their patients. That means doctors…
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HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out
HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 11, 2026 South Dakota’s effort to repeal the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee has now stalled in the Senate. HB 1160 was first killed in Senate Health and Human Services on March 4, when the…
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Iowa Advances HSB 687 as the State Starts Questioning Its Own Cannabis Tax Hypocrisy
Iowa Advances HSB 687 as the State Starts Questioning Its Own Cannabis Tax Hypocrisy By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 11, 2026 On March 10, Iowa lawmakers moved HSB 687 forward when a House Ways and Means subcommittee recommended passage, advancing a bill that would let licensed medical cannabis manufacturers and dispensaries deduct qualifying business…
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Why Formal Process Matters in Cannabis Reform: My South Dakota DOH Petition
Why Formal Process Matters in Cannabis Reform: My South Dakota DOH Petition By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 8, 2026 When I filed my petition with the South Dakota Department of Health, I already knew some people would hate it. Not because it was sloppy. Not because it was unserious. Not because it lacked legal…
Law
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No. 14 – The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context
The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context By Jason Karimi | WeedPress Policy Series No 14 March 24, 2026 I. Introduction As previewed in WeedPress White Paper No. 1, South Dakota adopted its Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) in 1970 as part of a broader…
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RFRA: A Case Law Survey
These RFRA cases show the recurring doctrinal questions courts ask: substantial burden, exhaustion, factual specificity, and whether courts—not agencies alone—may recognize exceptions. Oklevueha Native Am. Church of Haw., Inc. v. Lynch, 828 F.3d 1012, 1016–17 (9th Cir. 2016) (“RFRA itself provides no explicit definition of ‘substantial burden.’ However, we have held that the meaning of…
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Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny
Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny Why take a detour to get to strict scrutiny when you don’t need to? State RFRA may be inferior to a world where Smith is overruled, but in actual cannabis litigation it is usually superior to relying on Smith exceptions alone. By Jason Karimi |…
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Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions
Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 Before peyote exemptions were narrowed into modern statutory categories, the issue was simpler: people were being prosecuted for practicing their religion. That is what People v. Woody was about. In 1964, the California Supreme Court reversed peyote convictions…
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1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption
1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 A 1995 NARF Legal Review article states it plainly: “Nebraska state law never provided an exemption for the religious use of peyote by Indians.” The article explains that this created a practical problem in Nebraska. Native American Church members…
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The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983?
The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983? A major strategic question is emerging in religious-cannabis litigation, and it is bigger than any one state. If a Rastafarian plaintiff is challenging marijuana restrictions as applied to religious use, what is the best vehicle: a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or 42 U.S.C.…
Science
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This South Carolina Congressman Placates Steve King’s Hate While Respectable Colleagues Sneer At Iowa| [VIDEO]
“This house needs to take this resolution one step further,” says South Carolina Rep. Joe Cunningham.
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Will Susan Karimi of Ames Medical Greeley’s Rude Behavior Towards Marijuana Patients Hide Her Criminal Past? Doubtful.
Karimi has continually harassed medical marijuana patients in Iowa to the point that WeedPress has received a personal complaint from a patient. Once dug up that complaint towards this doctor who refused to sign the patient’s compassionate use of marijuana certificate will be published in full. Susan Karimi, the first waterbirth delivery person in the…
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Medicinal versus Recreational Cannabis Use among Returning Veterans.
Format: Abstract Send to Transl Issues Psychol Sci. 2018 Mar;4(1):6-20. doi: 10.1037/tps0000133. Medicinal versus Recreational Cannabis Use among Returning Veterans. Metrik J1,2,3, Bassett SS4, Aston ER2, Jackson KM2, Borsari B5,6. Author information Abstract Background: Although increasing rates of cannabis use and cannabis use disorder (CUD) are well-documented among veterans, little is known about their use…
Current Events
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Scheuer v. Rhodes
Sending people to jail for an innocent act when evidence reveals that the law upon which their conviction stands is fraudulent is a treasonous act in violation of the oath of office. U.S. Supreme Court, in Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 94 s Ct. 1683, 1687 (1974) stated that, “when a state officer acts…
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Federal Policy on Medical Marijuana Turns Corner
Justice Department Tells Prosecutors to Respect State Law In a sharp departure from previous federal policy, the U.S. Department of Justice has softened its stance on medical cannabis. In a memo issued in October, the Justice Department told U.S. Attorneys that they should not expend resources prosecuting medical cannabis patients and their caregivers in states…
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Prescribing vs. Recommending Medical Marijuana in various states (requirements per state)
Conant v. Walters, 309 F.3d 629, 634 (9th Cir. 2002) (“a doctor who actually prescribes or dispenses marijuana violates federal law”). Alaska: Alaska Stat. § 17.37.010(c)(1) (2009) (“statement signed by the patient’s physician”) California: Cal Health & Saf Code § 11362.5(b)(1)(A) (2009) (“recommended by a physician”) Colorado: Colo. Const. Art. XVIII, Section 14(1)(j) (2008) (“statement…
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Police told to stop using seized drugs in narcotics stings
By JEFF ECKHOFF • jeckhoff@dmreg.com • October 1,2009 Agents for Iowa’s top anti-drug police agency have been told to stop using seized narcotics to stage certain types of drug deals pending a review of their legal authority to do so, according to papers filed today in connection with a Polk County lawsuit. The Iowa Division…
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MAINE: Voters OK Dispensaries, Lawmakers Tinker
MAINE: Voters OK Dispensaries, Lawmakers Tinker By almost 57% Maine voters passed a referendum expanding the state’s decade-old medical cannabis law. Voters said that they wanted to, in the words of the ballot measure, “change the medical marijuana laws to allow treatment of more medical conditions and to create a regulated system of distribution.” In…
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NORML’s 2008 arrest count
BREAKING NEWS: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2008: 847,864 Arrests are actually down 3 percent from the previous year. Marijuana arrests equal roughly half of all drug arrests annually. September 14th, 2009 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Washington, DC: Police arrested 847,864 persons for marijuana violations in 2008, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s…
Legislation
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No. 14 – The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context
The South Dakota Controlled Substances Act: Legislative Architecture, Intent, and Institutional Design in a Potential Federal Rescheduling Context By Jason Karimi | WeedPress Policy Series No 14 March 24, 2026 I. Introduction As previewed in WeedPress White Paper No. 1, South Dakota adopted its Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) in 1970 as part of a broader…
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Nebraska Voters Approved Medical Cannabis. Now Protect the Doctors Who Make It Possible
Nebraska Voters Approved Medical Cannabis. Now Protect the Doctors Who Make It Possible Nebraska voters spoke when they approved medical cannabis. But a medical program cannot exist without doctors willing to recommend it. Right now, Nebraska law does not provide basic protections for physicians who choose to recommend cannabis to their patients. That means doctors…
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HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out
HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 11, 2026 South Dakota’s effort to repeal the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee has now stalled in the Senate. HB 1160 was first killed in Senate Health and Human Services on March 4, when the…
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Iowa Advances HSB 687 as the State Starts Questioning Its Own Cannabis Tax Hypocrisy
Iowa Advances HSB 687 as the State Starts Questioning Its Own Cannabis Tax Hypocrisy By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 11, 2026 On March 10, Iowa lawmakers moved HSB 687 forward when a House Ways and Means subcommittee recommended passage, advancing a bill that would let licensed medical cannabis manufacturers and dispensaries deduct qualifying business…
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Kill the MMOC: South Dakota Should Stop Protecting a Failed Anti-Patient Committee
HB 1160 Should Pass: The MMOC Lost Any Claim to Speak for Patients By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 7, 2026 South Dakota’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee should be repealed, and the Senate should stop dragging out the inevitable. HB 1160—the bill to repeal the MMOC—was smoked out of committee and forced back onto the…
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South Dakota Senate Uses “Smoke-Out” Procedure to Revive MMOC Repeal Bill
South Dakota Senate Uses “Smoke-Out” Procedure to Revive MMOC Repeal Bill By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 6, 2026 In a procedural move that underscores how legislative strategy can override committee decisions, the South Dakota Senate has revived HB 1160, the bill that would eliminate the state’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee (MMOC). Just one day…
RFRA Updates
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RFRA: A Case Law Survey
These RFRA cases show the recurring doctrinal questions courts ask: substantial burden, exhaustion, factual specificity, and whether courts—not agencies alone—may recognize exceptions. Oklevueha Native Am. Church of Haw., Inc. v. Lynch, 828 F.3d 1012, 1016–17 (9th Cir. 2016) (“RFRA itself provides no explicit definition of ‘substantial burden.’ However, we have held that the meaning of…
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Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny
Why Medical Cannabis Programs Usually Don’t Trigger Lukumi Strict Scrutiny Why take a detour to get to strict scrutiny when you don’t need to? State RFRA may be inferior to a world where Smith is overruled, but in actual cannabis litigation it is usually superior to relying on Smith exceptions alone. By Jason Karimi |…
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Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions
Jack Woody and the Forgotten Origin of Peyote Exemptions By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 Before peyote exemptions were narrowed into modern statutory categories, the issue was simpler: people were being prosecuted for practicing their religion. That is what People v. Woody was about. In 1964, the California Supreme Court reversed peyote convictions…
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1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption
1995 Article: Nebraska Had No State Peyote Exemption By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 23, 2026 A 1995 NARF Legal Review article states it plainly: “Nebraska state law never provided an exemption for the religious use of peyote by Indians.” The article explains that this created a practical problem in Nebraska. Native American Church members…
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The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983?
The Real Tactical Choice in Religious-Cannabis Litigation: RFRA or Section 1983? A major strategic question is emerging in religious-cannabis litigation, and it is bigger than any one state. If a Rastafarian plaintiff is challenging marijuana restrictions as applied to religious use, what is the best vehicle: a state Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or 42 U.S.C.…
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Today’s Probation Meeting Matters More Than It Looks
Today’s Probation Meeting Matters More Than It Looks Today’s meeting with probation may end up being one of the most important timeline entries in this entire case. At the meeting, my probation officer indicated that he had been planning to administer a UA. But once the pending religious evidentiary hearing was part of the picture,…
Upcoming Events
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Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana Launches Statewide Town Hall Tour
Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana Launches Statewide Town Hall Tour By Jason Karimi | WeedPress | February 7, 2026 Scottsbluff to Lincoln: Advocates Take Patient Access Conversation Across the State Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana (NMM) is hitting the road this week with a statewide town hall tour aimed at updating patients, families, and community members on…
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Federal Public Comment Available Now (Texas Too)
Public input needed! Federal first then Texas: Federal Update: CMS & Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids On November 28, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) filed a proposed ruleto incorporate the federal definition of hemp that will take effect on November 12, 2026. This proposed rule clarifies that cannabis or hemp-derived products illegal under federal or state…
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Tomorrow: Best Attorneys Discuss Federal Rescheduling At Noon
https://x.com/jamiecampbell/status/2006159843267145790?s=46 RSVP and attend at noon central/ 1 eastern 1-6-2025 Be there or be square. Link also here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UKmdX9EBQs2HYOW7epomvA#/registration
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Reminder: Rising to the Moment: Protecting and Advancing Cannabis Legalization in a Changing America
Rising to the Moment: Protecting and Advancing Cannabis Legalization in a Changing America Date & TimeDec 17, 2025 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Webinar ID815 7712 0875 Description BGM and Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) invite you to join us for a timely discussion on the current state of the national legalization landscape. We will…
For The Record (2026), By Jason Karimi
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Chapter 9: The Record vs. the Narrative
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 10: What Remains
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 8: What the Media Gets Wrong
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 7: Why I Never Left
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 6: Staying Power
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 5: The Apprenticeship
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 4: Learning the Language of Power
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 3: Becoming a Problem
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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Chapter 2: Before the File Was Opened
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted education, faith, discipline, and early legitimacy Chapter 3 — Becoming a ProblemWork, exhaustion, collapse, and the cost of visibility Chapter 4 — Learning the Language of PowerCourts, probation, jail, campaigns, and proximity to decision-makers…
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“For The Record” Chapter 1: The First Arrest
The following 8,580 word book is ten chapters long and written for future advocates. FOR THE RECORD How Power Actually Works—and Why Documentation Outlasts the Narrative By Jason Karimi Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 — The First ArrestEarly rupture, authority, and the beginning of resistance Chapter 2 — Before the File Was Opened Gifted…
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On Independence, Accountability, and Why I Don’t Build My Work Around Approval
On Independence, Accountability, and Why I Don’t Build My Work Around Approval By Jason Karimi At 19, I ended up in a homeless shelter. Not because I committed a crime.Not because I was addicted.Not because I couldn’t work. I was there because I stood up in court for religious cannabis rights, made the front page…
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Why WeedPress Chooses to Be a High-Heat, Contrarian Watchdog
Why WeedPress Chooses to Be a High-Heat, Contrarian Watchdog By Jason Karimi | WeedPressJanuary 24, 2026 WeedPress was not created to be polite. It was not created to echo press releases, recycle activist talking points, or play nice with institutions that have repeatedly failed cannabis patients, small operators, and civil liberties. WeedPress exists to document,…
Commentary
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“Code of the West” Covers Montana’s Failed Effort To Repeal Marijuana Laws
Year: 2012 At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law. Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies, the steamy lamplight…
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How Kim Reynolds Bullied Iowa City Council Members Out of Decriminalizing Marijuana
Iowa city council members who wished to decriminalize marijuana tell Iowa cannabis activists Kim Reynolds threatened to take away city funds from the state if the city council pursues marijuana decriminalization. As of today Kim Reynolds is the most unpopular governor in the country. Republicans stifling debate on a winning political issue using threats to…
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RFRA Changes The Cannabis Game; Fulfills My Prediction Religious Cannabis Constitutional Claims
Prior to RFRA state laws, I argued the first amendment right to religion would bring constitutional rulings for individuals protecting religious access to cannabis in private prayer. I think this is still the inevitable end result of cannabis litigations. There are several things to note about the RFRA.
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Patient Perspectives
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Freud’s Dirty Secret: How Candace Book Club Is Tearing Apart the Father of Psychoanalysis
Freud’s Dirty Secret: How Candace Book Club Is Tearing Apart the Father of Psychoanalysis By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 22, 2026 The Assault on Truth and Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition do not just question Freud’s legacy. They argue that modern psychoanalysis may have been built on suppression, repackaging, and intellectual disguise. Candace Owens’ book…
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HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out
HB 1160 Went Down in the Senate: South Dakota’s MMOC Repeal Bill Fails After Smoke-Out By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 11, 2026 South Dakota’s effort to repeal the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee has now stalled in the Senate. HB 1160 was first killed in Senate Health and Human Services on March 4, when the…
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Why Formal Process Matters in Cannabis Reform: My South Dakota DOH Petition
Why Formal Process Matters in Cannabis Reform: My South Dakota DOH Petition By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 8, 2026 When I filed my petition with the South Dakota Department of Health, I already knew some people would hate it. Not because it was sloppy. Not because it was unserious. Not because it lacked legal…
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South Dakota Senate Uses “Smoke-Out” Procedure to Revive MMOC Repeal Bill
South Dakota Senate Uses “Smoke-Out” Procedure to Revive MMOC Repeal Bill By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 6, 2026 In a procedural move that underscores how legislative strategy can override committee decisions, the South Dakota Senate has revived HB 1160, the bill that would eliminate the state’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee (MMOC). Just one day…
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Iowa Moves to Give Medical Cannabis Operators State Tax Relief Under HSB 687
Iowa Moves to Give Medical Cannabis Operators State Tax Relief Under HSB 687 By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 6, 2026 Iowa lawmakers have introduced House Study Bill 687, a tax measure that would let licensed medical cannabis manufacturers and dispensaries deduct ordinary business expenses on their Iowa tax returns even though those same deductions…
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DOH Confirms Receipt: South Dakota’s Schedule I Review Petition Is Officially in the Record
DOH Confirms Receipt: South Dakota’s Schedule I Review Petition Is Officially in the Record By Jason Karimi | WeedPress March 5, 2026 Previously on WeedPress: The South Dakota Department of Health has now confirmed it received my Petition for Declaratory Judgment and Mandatory Scheduling Review of Cannabis. This matters for one reason: it removes any…
WeedPress: The Paper Trail 