Category: Current Events
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These Grants Were WITHHELD (!!!) From States For Violating Federal Marijuana Laws In 2020
The following four links provide all the more reason for Iowa to exempt it’s medical marijuana patients from federal laws using the exemption process DEA makes available to marijuana advocates, industry leaders, and affected patients. New York v. United States, February 26, 2020 Eligibility for Federal Grants, Maine Commissioner, May 6, 2020 Federal mental health…
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Top Priority For Activists, TAKE NOTE: State Regulators Start “Cannabis Regulators Association”
If you want to know where the button/money shot/grand slam/most important energetic development on marijuana advocacy strategies is going to be localized over the next year, this group is likely the bees knees. I was tipped off to this when I attended this last week’s Iowa mCBD board hearing, where board member and leader Dr.…
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[VIDEO] Iowa To Recommend Medical Marijuana Sales Taxes Be Removed
Iowa mCBD board member Dr. Bob Schreck motioned at one hour and 32 minutes of today’s mCBD advisory board hearing to recommend that sales taxes be removed from Iowa’s medical cannabis program. The roll call vote passed by unanimous consent. Hopefully this will translate to legislative changes this 2021 session that will help Iowa patients…
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In Split Vote, Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board Denies Petition To Add Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric (PANS) Syndrome To Program
A petition filed by an Iowa doctor to add an additional condition to Iowa’s medical program today was denied in a split vote by Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol Board. PANS Syndrome, or Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, was not recommended for acceptance by the Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Advisory Board’s 3-panel subcommittee recently. Today, during the meeting on…
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Task force recommends updated marijuana policies in Des Moines
Weed All About It here at KCCI News Channel 8.
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Des Moines task force calls on state to legalize recreational marijuana
Weed All About It here in the Storm Lake Times.
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So Why Did 47 Iowa House Democrats Vote Against Expanding Iowa’s Marijuana Program In 2020?
Iowa Democrats seem to have sold out Iowa marijuana patients in 2020. Will they sell Iowa patients out again in 2021? This was the results of the House vote on a bill that added additional conditions and removed the THC cap in Iowa, House File 2589, which Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed last year: Everyone…
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How To Analyze Social Media Accounts To Destroy Political Opponents Effectively
I’ve decided to mirror the entire article from this website below. This adds a tremendous value to WeedPress followers in case it is ever deleted or hidden by Brandy for various reasons. Like, if Brandy ever grows something resembling a conscience, or gets some basic ethics, maybe. https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-3/investigating-actors-content/how-to-analyze-social-media-accounts This is truly fascinating stuff to be…
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Des Moines Register: Des Moines’ marijuana enforcement proposal needs more input, officials say
This doesn’t look too good for Des Moines police public relations here. The Des Moines City manager, however, as well as lawyer Gary Dickey, are on point. From this Des Moines Register article today: The resolution forming the task force promised a Des Moines Police Department official would be made available for consultation as needed.…
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DEA Response To Iowa’s Petition To Exempt Iowa State Medical Cannabis Patients From Legal Burdens, November 10 2020
To read the letter from the Drug Enforcement Administration to Iowans for Medical Marijuana founder Carl Olsen, follow this link: https://www.iowamedicalmarijuana.org/pdfs/dea-response-2020-11-10.pdf You can also download the pdf file, mirrored here at this WeedPress link: For more Iowa breaking news on marijuana advocacy efforts, follow WeedPress on Facebook.
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Agenda: November 13, 2020 Virtual Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting
View the original post at https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/IACIO/bulletins/2aae0d2 Agenda: November 13, 2020 Virtual Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Having trouble viewing? View this as webpage 11/9/2020 Agenda: November 13, 2020 Virtual Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Beginning at 10:00am on Friday, November 13, 2020, the final Medical Cannabidiol Board meeting of 2020 will be held virtually using the information below: WebEx Link (Click…
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Received An Interview Request To Discuss Des Moines Decriminalization Efforts And Election Impact
I received the following email this week: I host a progressive podcast and am a supporter of legal marijuana. Do you have someone who could do a Zoom interview on the election and also comment on this task force? https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/11/06/des-moines-marijuana-enforcement-task-force-finalizes-report/5867244002/ Please let me know? Thank you! All the best, George A. Clark www.podcastbygeorge.com George has…
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VIDEO: Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force Meeting, Public Comments From October 28 2020
CLICK HERE to follow Decriminalize Des Moines on Facebook Read more: Letter From The Des Moines Marijuana Task Force Chair, October 26 2020 Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Recommendations To Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force September 18 2020 Follow WeedPress on Facebook Above is video from yesterday’s Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force meeting. To…
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Letter From The Des Moines Marijuana Task Force Chair, October 26 2020
Below is the latest letter received from Gary Dickey of Des Moines Marijuana Task Force. To continue following updates and news on this particular area of Iowa marijuana law reform efforts please follow the Facebook page for Decriminalize Des Moines by clicking this link. October 26, 2020 RE: Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force…
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Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline
The following story, which I have copied and pasted into a word document you can download here, was originally posted at Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline in the National Review. This is a very good timeline to use when doing research on possible Biden Crime Family allegations through the election.
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Here’s The Latest Court Update On State Vs. Lacie Navin, Iowa’s Pending (And Important) CBD Criminal Case
Lawyer Colin Murphy, an excellent marijuana attorney, has taken over the case. Recent updates include motions for discovery. Looks like this one may be going all the way to trial. Below are the latest motions and docket entries courtesy of Iowa Courts Online. For more updates as this case progresses please do follow WeedPress on…
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Speechless: Ron Paul Suffers Stroke, Godless Left Celebrates On Twitter With Mocking And Glee
We need to split the country into two countries, to avoid a real life civil war. There is no reconciliation possible with this level of evil and depravity and anyone who desires reconciliation has chosen mammon over what’s good and right. To hell with these people. When the economy crashes, the Great Reset opportunity should…
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Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Recommendations To Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force September 18 2020
The following is the final version. Original formatting: Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Recommendations Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force September 18, 2020 Written by Jason Karimi Co-Founder, Executive Director, Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana First of all, I would like to deeply and personally thank everyone involved in bringing this task force about, and…
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UC Berkeley launches new center for psychedelic science and education
From UC Berkeley News: With $1.25 million in seed funding from an anonymous donor, the new UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics will conduct research using psychedelics to investigate cognition, perception and emotion and their biological bases in the human brain. The center is also developing a program for educating the public about…
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BLM Rioters In Charlotte Shout ‘F*** You, Jesus!’
BLM Rioters In Charlotte Shout ‘F*** You, Jesus!’ Consider this video yet another nail in the coffin that is “Black Lies Matter”
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Just Outside Rochester Minnesota Is A Huge CBD Hemp Field
I gotta stop there sometime and take some pictures. What looks like a few acres of cannabis plants are growing and blowing in the wind, with CBD signs posted along the fence that are tall and easily seen. The field of green is about 30 yards from the highway.
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September 10, 2020: Letter from the Chair of the Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force
September 10, 2020 Jason Karimi Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana 7688 NW 86th Avenue Johnston, IA 50131 Playsoccer711@gmail.com RE: Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force Dear Mr. Karimi: On September 16, 2020, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. the Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force will hold a Zoom meeting to receive public…
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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…
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Marijuana Moment Reports: Iowa Officials To Seek Federal Marijuana Exemption From DEA
I told you so for ten years: Iowa will be the first state to petition for federal marijuana exemptions. Carl Olsen has spent his entire life’s work to make this thing work the way it is intended. Even when government officials are thoroughly incompetent, this story shows a citizen can always keep government in check.…
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How Cool? Des Moines Zombie Burger Of The Week Celebrates Iowa’s Multi-Million Dollar Legal Marijuana Industry!
Writes the delicious Zombie Burger on Facebook: Zombie Burger + Drink Lab Our #ZBoftheWeek was created to recognize new changes in Iowa’s medical cannabis program, effective earlier this summer! The state added new approved conditions (including PTSD and chronic pain) and also lifted the THC cap, helping more Iowans get access to treatment. BLUNT TRAUMA:…
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Important #ActionAlert Details: Des Moines City Council Virtual Meeting Today, Public Comment Sign Up Ends Tonight
The Des Moines City Council invited me to take part in the September 2020 public comment period for marijuana decriminalization efforts. I just got off the phone with the Des Moines City Clerk of Court. She tells me today’s meeting this afternoon at 2:30 pm is open to the public but does not have public…
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Iowa’s GAME CHANGING WORK On Federal Marijuana Laws Being Covered Tomorrow Over At Marijuana Moment
Follow us at WeedPress for links to tomorrow’s article! This is exactly the press coverage we need to get the word out!
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Yesterday’s Iowa CBD Advisory Board Meeting: The Best Legal Weapon For The National Marijuana Movement In 2020?
Want to legalize marijuana? Want to legalize it the right way? Want to fix federal interference with state laws? Then listen to this: our work here in Iowa, which has taken over a decade, has convinced the State of Iowa to take on the federal government over marijuana legalization. No longer will marijuana advocates be…
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Agenda: September 4, 2020 Virtual Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting
This email contains the agenda and additional information related to the September 4, 2020 Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Having trouble viewing? View this as a webpage 8/31/2020 Agenda: September 4, 2020 Virtual Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Beginning at 10:00am on Friday, September 4, 2020, the third Medical Cannabidiol Board meeting of 2020 will be held virtually using the…
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Mob Violence Is Killing America And Is Way Deadlier Than Police Violence — Reject Violence, Or It Will Consume The Country
I’ve only ever voted once in a Presidential election for the President, and that was for Gary Johnson. I may end up voting this year after watching the violence in Wisconsin suburbs and DC neighborhoods, as well as my neighborhood here in Minneapolis. I live five minutes away from where George Floyd died of a…
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This Beautiful Legal Argument Could Resolve Federal/State Marijuana Conflict…But Lawyers Made The Argument In The Wrong Court!
Check out Marvin Washington, et al., Petitioners v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al.’s recent July 2nd brief here on the US Supreme Court Website. This is a tremendously beautiful argument. If somebody actually wants to get a ruling on it, they need to start by filing it first in district court. This legal…
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Proctor v. Krzanowski; Mitchell (Discrimination against medical marijuana doctor lawsuit ruling)
19-2347-2020-08-13 Case filed August 13, 2020. Not recommended for publication. Summary of case: State regulatory agency LARA employees invoke qualified immunity to discriminate against Michigan medical marijuana doctor. Doctor, Proctor, filed lawsuit against regulatory agency employee defendants Krzanowski and Miller; qualified immunity granted by court. Complaint dismissed.
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Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force Tentative Timeline/Schedule For Decriminalization Reports And Public Comment Opportunities
Will be posting to various social media pages and emailing our list concerning the second week of September. Public comment is as of right now going to happen during the second week of September. If you live in Des Moines, or care about Des Moines marijuana laws, the second week of September needs your stories,…
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Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana, Longtime Advocacy Group, Submitted These 65 Policy Suggestions To Decriminalize Des Moines Task Force
Good afternoon, Thank you for inviting us to take part. Having reached out to colleagues across the country, we offer the following, and look forward to making ourselves available in the future to help make our communities safer. Thank you again, Jason Karimi Executive Director, Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana 515.509.8883 7688 NW 86th…
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Des Moines Register: “In decades as an Iowa warden, I learned how mandatory sentences, ill-considered programs and more keep inmates and prisons from success”
Writes former prison warden John Mathes in today’s Des Moines Register: “My recommendation is to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana and implement a system of regulating, licensing, and taxing this like we do for alcohol.” Read the full article here in today’s Des Moines Register (Monday, August 17th, 2020). It has 8 policy proposals or…
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Retired Waterloo Police Chief Bernal Koehrsen Says Decriminalize Marijuana In Today’s Waterloo Courier
Read all about it here in The Courier
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Iowa Patients For Medical Marijuana Sends First Email To Supporters About Decriminalize Des Moines
https://mailchi.mp/e49863f4606e/help-iowa-patients-decriminalize-dsm-marijuana-possession Subscribe to Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Emails Iowa Patients have never been criminals. Decriminalize DSM 2020 Fellow Iowa Patients and advocates, we truly need your help and ideas here! So, I was invited to provide suggestions for policy proposals on decriminalizing marijuana in Des Moines. If you could, can you read our…
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First Draft For Decriminalize Des Moines Has 30 Policy Points. Anyone Have Any More?
Ok! So, I was invited to provide suggestions for policy proposals on decriminalizing marijuana in Des Moines. The following is my first final draft, due August 24th, to be sent to the Des Moines Marijuana Enforcement Task Force. If you have any suggestions for how Des Moines should decriminalize marijuana that you would like included…
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Oregon Criminal Justice Commission’s August 5th Racial And Ethnic Impact Statement On IP 44, The 2020 Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act
Downloaded and retrieved from https://www.theskanner.com/images/stories/2020/August/IP44-REI-Statement-Supplement.pdf; accessed August 14 2020 at 12:31 pm. IP44-REI-Statement-Supplement Click the above link titled “IP44 REI Statement Supplement” to download, or read below: Click to access IP44-REI-Statement-Supplement.pdf
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Here’s The Massively Important Full Text Of The Des Moines Iowa Marijuana Decriminalization Resolution 20-1065 Approved By City Council Vote On June 22 2020 (Read Here)
Good news. I was invited to write suggestions and policy proposals on marijuana decriminalization in Des Moines to the Des Moines City Council Marijuana Enforcement Task Force Chair, Gary Dickey. I figured actually reading the resolution in it’s entirety, as well as reviewing the city council hearing from June 22nd for context, was going to…
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Where Vice Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Stands On Marijuana
Marijuana Moment has the details.
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August’s Office of mCBD Hearing Has Been Rescheduled — Iowa Cannabis Advocates Invited To Attend September 4 at 10 AM
For more of the latest breaking news in the Iowa mCBD program experiment, follow WeedPress on Facebook by clicking here and giving us a “like!” See you September 4th during the virtual meeting. Multiple WeedPress contributors will be taking part. Video from the last hearing in June can be seen here if you haven’t seen…
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ATTENTION IOWA PATIENTS: THC Vape Launch Celebration This Saturday In Des Moines With FREE Ice Cream, Live Music, Food Trucks, More
Just announced on Facebook is this exciting new product launch for the multi-million dollar Iowa mCBD industry. Come join us this Saturday for the THC Vape Launch Celebration! You can RSVP to the event by clicking here and replying on the Facebook event page. Details: Join us in celebrating the launch of our new vapes!…
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Brett Favre SIGNED: Legendary NFL Quarterback Endorses Hemp CBD Over Opioids For Pain Recovery
Brett Favre is the latest professional athlete to publicly endorse and advocate for the medicinal use of cannabis for post-game or workout session recovery. Here’s one of Brett Favre’s ads: Green Eagle is the go-to source legendary NFL player Brett Favre uses and endorses for effective, affordable relief from discomfort and soreness as well as…
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CONFIRMED: Iowa Vaporization Pens Expected In Iowa mCBD Dispensaries Within Weeks | Green Nurse Carey Lee
Green Nurse Carey Lee is reporting on Facebook today that vaporization/inhalation products will be sold to Iowa medical cannabis patients at the three Iowa mCBD medical cannabis dispensaries this fall. Writes Green Nurse Carey Lee, Excellent service yesterday from the staff at Iowa Cannabis Co. based in Waterloo Iowa. Professional zen like environment located in…
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I’ve Just Been Invited To Provide Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force With Policy Suggestions On How To Decriminalize Marijuana!
Below is the letter to myself from Gary Dickey, Chair of the Des Moines City Council Marijuana Task Force. I’m going to send a one sentence response in that I support any reduction or elimination of penalties for any and all forms of marijuana use, transport, and personal cultivation. I also urge the city council…
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Rasta Bernell Trammell Political Assassination/Murder Discussed By Raymond Arroyo and Candace Owens on Internet Talk Show 7-30-2020
Video transcript begins at time 7:35 of the video. Raymond Arroyo: Hmm. There’s a story, Candace, it’s gotten almost no media coverage. A black Milwaukee man, Bernell Trammell — who by the way, was a supporter of Black Lives Matter — he was fatally shot last Thursday while sitting outside of his business. Now, he’s…
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Black Rasta Man Gunned Down In Broad Daylight Last Week Makes Fox News For Second Time, Gets Not A Peep From BLM Or Wisconsin Democrats
Looks like CNN and MSNBC don’t care, and only Ingraham on Fox News seems to have done the journalistic duty to focus on this plausible political assassination. Where is CNN or MSNBC? Apparently, this doesn’t fit the false narrative of police brutality that facts just don’t back up: “The sight of a Rastafarian poet holding…
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Reading Between The Lines Of Global Cannabis Policies: An Historical Perspective
Originally quoted and accessed August 2 2020 at 1:37 pm at https://wp.wwu.edu/kaplanlab/2019/12/13/reading-between-the-lines-of-global-cannabis-policies-an-historical-perspective/ Reading Between The Lines Of Global Cannabis Policies: An Historical Perspective In 1971, Congress created the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, now called the Schaffer Commission. A reluctant President Richard Nixon appointed 13 members to the group that consisted of senators,…
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Rejecting Liberty: The Democratic Party Elite Endorsed Pot Prohibition To Cover Biden. Here’s What Cannabis Advocates Are Doing About It.
So I’m going to tell you a huge secret many marijuana advocates used to not want people to know. It’s one of the reasons the medical marijuana movement so disingenuously abused patient stories to pass shitty medical marijuana laws that to this day leave patients open to federal prosecution, all for the sake of making…
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Fox News: Mainstream Media Not Covering Ras Bernell Trammel Murdered For Political Beliefs In Milwaukee #IngrahamAngle #FoxNews #Rastafari
Last week in Milwaukee, a well-known, passionate figure in the community was murdered. #FoxNews #IngrahamAngle For more on this story from WeedPress please read: Attention Attorney General Barr: Investigate the Wisconsin Political Assassination of O.G. Rastafarian Bernell Trammell Now! Here’s the coverage of this political assassination that had better trigger a federal investigation, stat.
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Attention Attorney General Barr: Investigate the Wisconsin Political Assassination of O.G. Rastafarian Bernell Trammell Now!
So, I’m watching the AG Barr testimony on the YouTube livestream thing, and, I believe Barr just said in response to questions about Bernell Trammell’s death that it will be being investigated as a political assassination, triggering federal crime statutes. I’m not confirmed on exactly what was said or meant yet, but we have…
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#ActionAlert Well-Known Iowa Cannabis Advocate Seeks Business Partners, Physicians To Perform Iowa Patient mCBD Referral Services
Physician Assistant Courtney Linton Seeks Physician Team For Medical Cannabis Recommendations Long-time and well-known Iowa medical cannabis advocate Courtney Linton is currently seeking to set up a business venture in Iowa that will offer cannabis consumers certifications into the Iowa mCBD program. She announced this business venture opportunity earlier this week. It seems inevitable that…
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New Proposed Rules To Be Added To Iowa mCBD Program — Public Comments Accepted By August 4th
Below is the proposed new rules for the Iowa medical cannabis program. If you would like to make a comment concerning these rules, please submit comments to the Board of Health by July 1st. Any interested person may submit written comments concerning this proposed rule making. Written comments in response to this rule making must…
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That One Time Iowa DHS Targeted A CBD-Using Pregnant Woman For Failing Her Drug Test
Here’s another report of family law issues concerning non-medical CBD legality in Iowa and DHS. Today’s report of DHS action taken against an Iowa CBD user (not to be confused with mCBD, sold at Iowa dispensaries around the state to legal cardholders exempt from state and federal law). No legal charges came about as a…
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Iowa Sends Black Man To Prison For Five Years For Marijuana Possession
Marijuana was made illegal for racist reasons. This is well established history. Today, the oppression of people of color continues with a little known law on the books in Iowa’s systemically racist drug war, as a 26 year old black man is robbed of five years of his life for possessing a god given medicinal…
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Iowa Cannabis Advocate Files Petition for agency action concerning House File 2589 and Iowa Code Chapter 124E
THE LATEST: Iowa Cannabis Advocate Files Petition for agency action concerning House File 2589 and Iowa Code Chapter 124E This was expected, and, is very well written. The latest petition aims to prevent and correct seriously epic errors of law concerning federal funding (errors only a legislative body could be so stupid as to expect…
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I Remember My First Job Rejection Due To My Marijuana “Criminal” Record
When I was 19 years old, TruGreen Lawn and Landscape in Ankeny Iowa offered me an awesome job. I had to take an IQ test and a knowledge test, and after the first round of interviews they pulled me into a room. TruGreen told me I had broken their company record with the…
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WeedPress Visits George Floyd Memorial And Safe Zone | June 2nd 2020
Alright, the video speaks for itself. Stopped by this morning to check things out at the spot where George Floyd was murdered by the police state. See for yourself:
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Crips and Bloods, Black Panthers Pray Publicly In Christ Name To Unite All Colors And Creeds | 38th And Chicago Minneapolis 5-29-2020
Crips and Bloods, Black Panthers Pray Publicly In Christ Name To Unite All Colors And Creeds | 38th And Chicago Minneapolis 5-29-2020 “You walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” Ephesians 2:2 Today is Pentecost!…
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Powerful Pictures Minneapolis Riots Night 2: Looting, Murder, Violence, Fire, Vandalism, As Hijackers Take Over Protestor Narrative
Here are some pictures from night 2 of the 2020 Minneapolis Riots.
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WeedPress Exclusive: Horrific Pictures From Last Night’s Minneapolis Riots: Looting, Murder, Violence, Fire, Vandalism, As Hijackers Take Over Protestor Narrative
So much for justice for George Floyd. I am sharing these 81 pictures so people can see what we were dealing with in my backyard neighborhoods last night. A lot of my friends live in this part of Minneapolis and we were all texting each other and watching Live Streams to be aware…
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Iowa May See Medical Marijuana Dispensaries In Coralville Next Year
Quad City Times: 2 medical marijuana companies eyeing Coralville dispensary opening Excerpt from the article: The Des Moines-based MedPharm Iowa and Waterloo-based Iowa Cannabis Co. are seeking a medical cannabidiol dispensary license in Coralville from the Iowa Department of Public Health. Coralville Mayor John Lundell has written a letter of support for…
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6 Million People Viewed Our Meme In One Month #Iowa #Cannabis #Liberty
During the month of February, Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana saw a meme go viral that reached over 6 million people. That’s a new record, and as the timing of the post came during the first caucus in the nation concluding, I think this many people agreeing with a non-partisan post that flips off the…
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Federal Government Cancels Maine’s Mental Health Grants Due to State’s Medical Cannabis Program
Cannabis Business Times has more details on which school districts lost their funding due to their state marijuana laws in Maine.
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Updates to Medical Cannabidiol Act 2020 | Carl-Olsen.com
https://carl-olsen.com/2020/05/updates-to-medical-cannabidiol-act-2020 Posted on May 25, 2020 Updates to Medical Cannabidiol Act 2020 Dear Legislators, I am writing regarding pending legislation requiring the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) to request guarantees that federal funding will not be withheld from state educational and long-term care facilities that allow the use of medical cannabidiol consistent with chapter…
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Iowa Public Radio’s Ben Kieffer Hosts WeedPress For An Hour Long Discussion At Iowa Capitol Law Library [TRANSCRIPT]
Transcript begins at the 16 minute 54 second mark. Original audio available here: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/defining-unborn-person-and-stronger-medical-marijuana#stream/0 Ben Kieffer: Let’s talk about medical marijuana. Now, when Iowa legalized medical marijuana just a few years ago, it allowed no manufacturing and was limited to epilepsy patients. Now it’s expanded to allow the manufacturing here in the state of…
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Friedman, Milton. 1967. “Why Not a Volunteer Army?” New Individualist Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, Spring, pp. 3-9
Friedman concludes, “One of the greatest advantages in human freedom was the commutation of taxes in kind to taxes in money. We have reverted to a barbarous custom. It is past time that we regain our heritage.” Read Friedman’s thoughtful article here at Google Books. Full URL link: https://books.google.com/books?id=yrCOBIn1m1IC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=Friedman,+Milton.+1967.+%E2%80%9CWhy+Not+a+Volunteer+Army?%E2%80%9D+New+Individualist+Review,+Vol.+4,+No.+4,+Spring,+pp.+3-9&source=bl&ots=1kur8txzBN&sig=ACfU3U1ED0fkZltjqn6wTfNuRUYhrfbflA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT0Nnv5M7pAhWCKs0KHW9gD9AQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Friedman%2C%20Milton.%201967.%20%E2%80%9CWhy%20Not%20a%20Volunteer%20Army%3F%E2%80%9D%20New%20Individualist%20Review%2C%20Vol.%204%2C%20No.%204%2C%20Spring%2C%20pp.%203-9&f=false Further readings on this idea come…
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Iowa Public Radio’s Ben Kieffer Hosts WeedPress For An Hour Long Discussion At Iowa Capitol Law Library [TRANSCRIPT SOON]
This interview took place April 2nd 2019. Unexpectedly Ben Kieffer brought up the WeedPress blog (follow us on Facebook) and asked about it, so I figured it’s relevant to post here. https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/defining-unborn-person-and-stronger-medical-marijuana?fbclid=IwAR0O-p-LgTV4F3RVUxo3S8Ig_GTZ-XShy6edG8g62M03ddQ8fPWaNKDkzmQ#stream/0 Listen to the full hour of this Legislative Day edition of River to River here- Bills exploring medical marijuana and the definition…
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Cool Story Professor: How I Got Straight A’s Again This Semester (Except For My Marxist History Teacher’s Punitive And Arbitrary “B”)
Note to self. Marxist history professors, if you point out how awfully wrong they are about history, will dock you points without cause and then write you an email saying your views — which aren’t your views, they just need to strawman to avoid criticism and dismissal of their ideas — are everything wrong with…
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Economics Of Iowa’s Medical Cannabis Industry: 120 Jobs, 6 Million Annual Sales, Ranked 32 Nationally
This jobs report study by Leafly shows Iowa ranks 32nd nationally in legal cannabis jobs; sells $6 million annually in cannabis products at the five three dispensaries in the state; and has 120 Iowans employed in the industry, legally distributing marijuana medicines. In other words, Iowa’s cannabis economy isn’t leaving. $6 million may be a…
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Clown Libertarian Vermin Supreme Breaks Federal Law, Smokes Joint During Libertarian National Presidential Debate
Ok, Vermin is seriously a total shit show. I truly cannot understand why this guy thinks he’s ever going to be given a shot at serious national politics when he behaves like this. Could somebody please explain why this incompetent criminality is being tolerated? I’d be down with civil disobedience if it was smooth.…
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Virginia Officially Becomes 27th State To Decriminalize Marijuana Possession Or Use! No Jail Time, No Financial Ruin!
Details here thanks to Marijuana Moment. My kids, and friend’s families, will not suffer the tyranny of shame, judgment, and sabotage from their elderly evil community for much longer, or there will, be hell, to pay.
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Matt Hanson, Iowa Ironman 5-Time Champion, Joins “Resilience CBD” Advisory Board
Details here courtesy of Triathlon Magazine Canada. Below is Iowa Ironman Matt Hanson’s Instagram announcement about his CBD advisory board position: View this post on Instagram
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Breaking: Feds “Arbitrarily” Cancel MILLIONS In State Funding Over Federally Illegal State Marijuana Laws
For years we have warned that state marijuana laws would someday lead to some politician seizing up the federal funds to deal with the anarchy of illegal state marijuana laws. Linda Upmeyer and the Iowa Republicans enthusiastically encouraged Iowans to smuggle cannabis medicine from out of state, and then repeatedly endorsed an illegal mafia program…
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Today’s 420 Online Town Hall Discusses STATES Act, States Roles And Responsibilities, Taxes
Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana co-hosted a 420 online town hall today and asked a good question that had an even better response. Thank you to US Senate candidate Eddie Mauro for hosting this event. Our question was as follows: “The federal government’s role in creating exemptions for state marijuana laws is already on…
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Libertarian Socialist Caucus Loses It’s Shit On Facebook When Questioned
I’ve been commenting there for months, and this is the first time the caucus replied itself. It’s followers are morons, truly. It’s quite unprofessional, but this is what happens when 5th grade social science teachers start political operations. Socialists really are this pathetic, and cannot go toe to toe with intellectual discussions over ideas.…
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Religious Freedom Exemptions: Sacramental Use Of Cannabis
https://carl-olsen.com/2018/06/sacramental-use-of-cannabis Posted on June 23, 2018 by Carl Olsen Sacramental use of cannabis I’m a member of a Jamaican Rastafarian church incorporated in Jamaica as the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church (EZCC) in 1976, Act No. 11. The sacrament of the EZCC is cannabis. I was arrested in 1978 with 100 pounds of cannabis in Muscatine…
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USDA Approves Hemp Plans For Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa Thursday
Marijuana Moment has the details
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Is It Okay To Smoke Weed Right Now? Dr. Sunil Aggarwal Explains The Science
The Stranger: An interview with Dr. Sunil Aggarwal about COVID-19, respiratory illness, and whether it’s safe to consume cannabis.
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CBD CALM-branded products are now available for online purchase in Brazil
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kemin-industries-cbd-vida-launch-130000473.html Kemin Industries and CBD Vida Launch Medical Cannabis Products for Patients in Brazil PR NewswireApril 14, 2020 CBD CALM-branded products are now available for online purchase in Brazil DES MOINES, Iowa, April 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Kemin Industries, acting as consultant to MedPharm Iowa, a manufacturer and dispensary of medical cannabis that aspires to improve…
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May 1st Iowa CBD Board Hearing Postponed Due To COVID Until Further Notice
Next CBD advisory board hearing date is not yet set. Follow WeedPress on Facebook for rescheduled dates.
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Rep. Steven Holt “Deeply Disturbed” About Curtailing Liberties…Except For Hemp Smoking
I find it quite ironic that today’s supposed moral high ground stance by Representative Steven Holt claims to be pro-liberty and worried about the Constitution: I am deeply disturbed when talking heads and so called experts suggest that restrictions on our liberty and economy should go on for as long as 18 months. That is…
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Students: Industrial Hemp Production Diploma now being offered at Muscatine Community College
https://www.eicc.edu/news2/04-07-2020-industrial-hemp-program.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0QqgtXdOjMa5XQTIkNCRqp5DsocVaLUsjLE0qc20XmzzM8AqJBwts3Iy8 New Industrial Hemp Production Program starting this fall 4/7/20 One of the first plants spun into fiber thousands of years ago is making a comeback. Beginning in 2020, hemp production is legal in the United States with Iowa farmers able to grow up to 40 acres. Muscatine Community College (MCC) is…
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Ohio Department of Health Orders All Hemp CBD Businesses Stopped, Shut Down Until Further Notice
This order comes per “Minutes of the Dispute Resolution Commission Convened Under the Ohio Director of Health Stay-at -Home” Ordered April 8, 2020 – 4:00 p.m Question: are these “orders,” “lawful?” The Commission addressed the fifth and final request, regarding businesses selling CBD products. Chairman Randazzo explained the Commission’s decision: a local health authority…
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NIACC basketball player sentenced for marijuana misdemeanor
https://www.kimt.com/content/news/NIACC-basketball-player-sentenced-for-marijuana-misdemeanor-569581411.html Yeah, because arresting athletes in Iowa’s top conferences is great for society and not a total waste of time. So much for respecting natural liberties and leaving peaceful people alone. Relevant parts of the article: Trey Le Sampson, 19 of Davenport, has been given a deferred judgment and one year of supervised probation after…
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Des Moines Register Reporting Iowa Medical CBD Legislation May Still Pass This Year
‘A devastating blow’: Iowa’s 2 shuttered medical marijuana dispensaries could take year to replace has Senator Bolkcom telling reporter Ian Richardson that like me, the House Bill passed on partisan lines in this 2020 legislative session is going to be opposed. Knowing the lying evil of Kim Reynolds after years of her stonewalling and being…
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Are CBD Gummies Legal: A State By State Guide
Left the following comment on the article Are CBD Gummies Legal: A State by State Guide over at LA Progressive: Jason Karimi says April 13, 2020 at 9:06 am Your comment is awaiting moderation. This article is inaccurate. In Iowa, you must have not just a doctor’s recommendation, but pay a fee…
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Iowa mCBD Cardholder Calls For Legal Mail Program For Cannabis Patients BURNED By Dispensary Closures
I’ll save the complaining about the Republican party’s sole culpability in tanking the medical cannabis industry in Iowa with their onerous regulations and skip directly to this Iowa cannabis card holding patient’s request that rural and truly vulnerable Iowans left hours from a dispensary be left alone to get their product by mail service instead:…
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Glowing Reviews For MedPharm Iowa Employees, Staff Angels [REVIEWS]
Iowans have been leaving some glowing feedback over the years for the staff and front-line healthcare workers at Iowa’s medical cannabis dispensaries. MedPharm has also been epicly and relentlessly killing it in the advocacy and educational realms! Here’s a truly insightful collection of some reviews from cannabis end users left here on MedPharm’s public Facebook…
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Analysis: Commercially Marketed CBD Products Often Tainted with THC
WeedPress special note: Cedar Rapids illegal CBD products at the Corner Store Apothecary are a minor yet obnoxious personal problem in Iowa. Not only can the products sold over the counter at Corner Store Apothecary actually get illegal CBD users in trouble with law enforcement, DHS can also take their kids, probation can violate…
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Iowa Republicans Have Egg On Face Due To Partisan, Tight Restrictions — As Iowa Cannabis Industry Player Quits, Says Bon Voyage
“Iowa patients now have only three medical cannabis dispensaries operating throughout the state,” reports Ganjapreneur. Licensing new dispensaries could take well into summer 2021 before Iowa patients have access to a stable, reliable source of safe cannabis once again. Read more: Acreage Holdings freezes wholesale medical marijuana operations in Iowa: “Both of these closings…
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Tomorrow’s Court Hearing For Felony Charges Against Iowa CBD Saleswoman Continued For May 22, 2020
Tomorrow’s hearing in the matter of seized property — from an allegedly illegal Ankeny Iowa CBD business — has been continued to May 22, 2020. Filings Title: SEIZED PROPERTY OF LACIE NAVIN Case: 05771 SPCE085433 (POLK) Citation Number: Event Filed By Filed Create Date Last Updated Action Date ORDER FOR CONTINUANCE BRANDT GREGORY D…
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Republicans set up cannabis industry to fail – could the coming recession finish the job?
Columnist Adam Sullivan explains Iowa’s economically unfeasible situation in The Gazette.
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Iowa CBD Still Illegal In 2020 Without Exemption, Says Iowa State Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship
Iowa’s plan does not legalize the production or use of CBD, according to the state Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship. Hemp Today blog has more on that. I blame illegal CBD salespeople for allowing this all to continue on for so long, and it matters, because they are the problem, and they also…
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Governor Reynolds Flailing Program “Not Economically Feasible To Operate” as Iowa Dispensaries Quit Patients Without Notice
Governor Kim Reynolds has intentionally obstructed marijuana patient civil rights in a multitude of truly repulsive, shady politicking ways. Through closed door meetings, legislative conspiracies with Linda Upmeyer to set up patients in various entrapments, and expertly defying the laws of communication and shutting down reporters, journalists, and sick patients who attempted to reach Kim…
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Here’s What Your Brain Looks Like On Psilocybin
Image from Journal of The Royal Society Publishing Homological scaffolds of brain functional networks G Petri 2014 Business Insider: Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, sprouts new links across previously disconnected brain regions, the study found, temporarily altering the brain’s entire organizational framework. The data visualization below (b) shows how these new connections…
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BREAKING: 2 Iowa Dispensaries PERMANENTLY CLOSE, Reducing Patient Access In The Most Restrictive Program In The Country Even More!
This just in today. Zero notice was given by Have A Heart — and I can’t really blame them. Kim Reynolds has thrown patients off a cliff. Seeing this inevitability, it appears this company decided to cut it’s losses and quit without any notice to stop any further financial loss. Iowa patients, already lacking…
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Des Moines Area Shag Stores Drop CBD, Stating “CBD Is Illegal To Sell And Won’t Be Back On Shelves Anytime Soon”
Shag stores in Iowa will not sell “CBD” over the counter any longer, citing it’s illegal status as a Schedule 1 narcotic in Iowa. This is according to employees at their West Des Moines Shag location. Somebody should like, you know, organize a petition drive, or legislator lobbying push of some sort, to legalize…
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Guess Who Has A Background In Addiction Counseling? The Newly Elected Iowa Democratic Party Chair, That’s Who!
Below is Mark Smith’s introductory letter to Iowa Democrats. Note his background as a social worker treating substance abuse.
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Iowa Hemp Plan Approved By USDA BUT CBD Remains Illegal As Of March 2020 (Without FDA Approval)
“mCBD” is still legal through the Iowa approved medical cannabidiol program — more on that later. Hemp sourced CBD remains illegal in Iowa as of March 20, 2020, reports Ganjapreneur: Iowa’s industrial hemp plan has received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and farmers in the state can begin applying to cultivate the crop…
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Bad News For Hemp: Hemp Markets In Iowa Unlikely To Turn A Profit, Says Iowa State University Crop Expert
The opportunities and challenges with hemp By Chad Hart Integrated Crop Management News, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach The following is an excerpt from this article over at Aberdeen News: To me, the biggest challenge for anyone exploring hemp, either as a producer or as a landowner with a tenant possibly producing hemp, will…
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How To Get Your Iowa Cannabidiol Registration Card During The COVID-19 Virus Crisis
Much thanks to Joe Hooshook for the following information. Click here for the Iowa DOT list of numbers to make your necessary phone calls for getting your DOT issued medical cannabidiol registration card. Joe Hooshock 22 hrs The Iowa DOT is prioritizing the issuance of mCBD patient and caregiver cards, deeming it an essential service.…
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Iowa Dispensaries Are Now Offering Roadside Pickup For Consumer Medications
The market, provides. Iowa patients, please be advised that Iowa medical dispensaries are dispensing medication through curbside pickup. Find your local dispensary contact information below for more details. I don’t believe every dispensary is currently participating but am not entirely certain. For patients, this means they can still access cannabis products without having to set…
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Leonard Read on Violence, Liberty, and Love
Timely article here at Mises.org. Writes Pepperdine University’s Gary Galles, “Virtue is widely preached and admired. Most consider themselves virtuous. Yet in our society, virtue is being progressively crowded out by coercion.” “In Students of Liberty, Leonard Read drew out the superiority of a society whose organizing principle is virtue—love voluntarily acted out in practical…
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Small Business Administration Refuses Cannabis Businesses Corona Disaster Relief Business Loans
The reason? Federal prohibition not exempting state laws (yet). State legal businesses cannot get federal access to business relief funding due to federal prohibition. This article from Tom Angell’s excellent as always Marijuana Moment has the details, and is yet another reason why the state’s failure to protect their state legal industries by ducking the…
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[VIDEO] March 10th 2020 Iowa House Debate Over Medical Cannabis, Vote
Jarad Klein appears to volunteer for the head horse’s ass in a room full of federal criminals. Watch:
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Action Happening Now: Eight Amendments Filed, House Debate Calendar Schedule Show Cannabis Bill On Deck
Here is my summary of the eight amendments filed this morning. The House is currently debating medical cannabis bills. You can find your representative to contact and urge a yes vote on whatever Kim Reynolds dictator like statehouse claims is morally correct here this year. These amendments are for House File 2589. The following…
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Developing: Senator Miller-Meeks, Others, Discuss Medical Cannabis At Yesterday’s Ottumwa League of Women Voter’s Forum
Ottumwa, Iowa Senator Miller-Meeks and other state actors discussed concerns about lack of federal influence on fixing outdated marijuana laws at a League of Women Voter’s forum in Ottumwa Saturday morning. See below for video from an Iowa patient discussing concerns with limitations being placed on Iowa’s medical cannabis program as well as a major…
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The Real Nature of Politics and Politicians
The Real Nature of Politics and Politicians or America’s System Works, But Not the Way You Think! By Mike Rothfeld (Editor’s Note: I met Mike at the Campaign For Liberty convention in Atlanta in January 2010. This guy is a take-no-prisoners guerrilla fighter. If you see Mike in person giving a speech, you’ll either love him…
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The Latest: Senator Brad Zaun Talks To Simon Conway About Medical Marijuana
Listen here at iHeart Radio podcasts.Key takeaways: Republicans are ideologically inconsistent and already paying for Reynolds ideological rigidity; patients renewal annually Zaun is open to reconsidering as it’s not easy for chronic patients to get renewed annually, which may explain why the program retention rate is only 32%; Zaun admits the War on Drugs is…
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Proposed Medical Cannabis Changes Worry Some Iowa Patients
Iowa Public Radio covers an Iowa patient’s story of getting her life back through the medical cannabis program. If some proposed legal changes take effect at the statehouse this year, says IPR, Iowan Wendy Shoemaker’s dose will be interfered with. Important nod to Lucas Nelson of Medpharm Iowa’s citation of Conant v Walters (prohibiting…
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Minnesota mother fights for bill to allow son to receive CBD oil at school
Fox 9 News has the details.
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Marijuana charges against Rasta church operators to remain, judge says
Details here courtesy of Wisconsin State Journal.
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Simon Conway To Discuss Iowa Marijuana For 1040 WHO Radio Show Tonight
Show starts at 7 pm. Here’s the link to tune in. No clue what Simon is going to specifically talk about, but hopefully it will be an entire hour (doubtful) and hopefully we can call in and talk about it (likely). Phone number if you want to call in yourself is below. Contact Call 515-284-1040…
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Historic Assange trial could decide ‘fate of journalism’
Russia Today via Lew Rockwell: According to the video, the show trial is rigged in a court system that has never acquitted someone tried for these Trump-ed up charges.
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2-21-20
New Action based on your list: Marijuana example. You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Legislation SF 2363 A bill for an act relating to the medical cannabidiol Act, and including transition provisions. (Formerly SSB 3136.) 02/21/2020 Document was tied to topic(s) – Autism, Drugs,…
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The Marijuana Movement Needs To Learn How To Handle Disputes Better. Why Not Use This Advice?
Just found this, and am going to use it. I’ve been saying a version of this for years — communication is important to get right, and if you can’t repeat what was just said to you, and give the person who said it an opportunity to correct any misinterpretations, then you’re likely going to create…
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Video: No charges to be filed against Denver officer found drunk, passed out behind wheel of cruiser
From Fox 8 News: Body camera video shows fellow officers on the scene where Nate Meier was found unconscious in his patrol car. The engine was running, and his foot was on the brake. “I’m frustrated because bottom line is, if one of us had been in that car and not Officer Nate Meier, you…
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Nasdaq Adds Marijuana Price Indexes to Its Platform | Nasdaq
Want to monitor marijuana prices? For a price, Nasdaq can now help you do just that! Weed all about it here at Nasdaq dot com.
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Federal Reserve Sends Reminder That Hemp Businesses Can Get Bank Accounts
Marijuana Moment’s Kyle Jaeger has the full details. Here’s an excerpt: But as others have recognized, the central bank district said that despite “the change in the legal treatment of hemp, many bankers have been reluctant to work with the industry because of regulatory concerns.” To that end, the the Board of Governors of…
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2-20-20
New Action based on your list: Marijuana . You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Legislation SF 2350 A bill for an act providing for regulation by employers and other entities of the use of marijuana and derivatives thereof. (Formerly SSB 3188.) 02/20/2020 Document was…
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[VIDEO] We went to talk to troubled black youth, and this happened #EatTheBone
Rasta Tease has the video. Check out their hot sauces as well: https://rastatease.wixsite.com/rastatease/shop Rasta Tease is operated by reggae music artist Ras PeeWee Dread.
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Finally: Reynolds says she’s comfortable with board recs on medical marijuana
Radio Iowa has this predictable news from the drunken governor whose alcoholic past has been one of her excuses for dodging patients or engaging them as human freaking beings for the past three years.
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Cannabis Jobs [The Top 10 Highest-Paying Positions]
This isn’t clickbait, and actually has excellent insights. Interested in working in the industry? Cannabis is still illegal under federal law, but, here’s the opportunities in this growing industry here courtesy of Marijuana Break.
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Yahoo! Lifestyle Talks Iowa CBD (Not What You’d Expect)
Is buying CBD legal? On the federal level, CBD and other hemp-derived products have been legal since The Farm Bill passed in 2014. That means that it’s up to individual states to regulate how CBD and other hemp products are sold and used. Most states allow CBD to be bought and sold with some stipulations,…
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Iowa Republicans Promote New Law Targeting Legal Cannabis Patients Employment
Iowa medical cannabis patients already face enough problems in their daily lives, but now, they may have to face them while unemployed. Quad City Times Capitol Digest has the details: WORKPLACE MARIJUANA RESTRICTIONS: Senate Republicans advanced a proposal that would state an employer’s right to regulate marijuana use by its employees. The proposal passed…
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2-19-20
Legislation HF 2431 A bill for an act eliminating controlled, counterfeit, simulated, imitation, and precursor substance-related criminal offenses and including effective date provisions. 02/18/2020 Document was tied to topic(s) – Addictions, Controlled substances, Criminal law, Drug dealer taxes, Drug stamps, Drug trafficking, Drugs, Excise taxes, Marijuana, Narcotics, Substance abuse, Taxation 02/18/2020 Introduced, referred to Public…
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Just Say No To Microdosing?
Read why microdosing could be perverting a sacred sacrament into a corporate capitalist culture driven tool instead: Double Blind has a subversive perspective about psychedelic medicines ayahuasca, magic mushrooms and LSD.
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The Psilocybin Movement: Is It Like Marijuana’s Movement?
The Canna Law Blog has attorney Vince Sliwoski with the movement comparisons.
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Iowa Employee Receives Warning Email From CEO: CBD Is Illegal And You Will Be Fired
“I’m here because my CEO, um, made it an announcement that CBD is illegal. And I was taking that, and I was healthy.” — Iowan Mike Nixon, Valentine’s day medical cannabidiol advisory board hearing public testimony This public testimony comes from Iowa Veteran Mike Nixon. You can read his full story here: [TRANSCRIPT] Iowa…
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[TRANSCRIPT] Iowa Cannabidiol Advisory Board Meeting, Full Transcript, 2-14-20
Iowa Cannabis Advisory Board Meeting, Valentine’s Day 2020, Part 1 Runtime: 2 Hours 18 Minutes Unofficial transcript prepared by Jason Karimi Audio and video originally provided by MedPharm Iowa’s Facebook LiveStream. Backup of this video is available here: https://weedpress.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/iowa-cannabis-advisory-board-meeting-valentines-day-2020-part-1-video/ Moderator: Let’s take a roll call here. Dr. Cheyne? Dr. Liesveld? Dr. Liesveld: Here. Dr.…
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Iowa Capital Dispatch: Senator Zaun Going For The ‘Gusto’ On Cannabis Advancements In 2020
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2020/02/18/senator-im-going-for-the-gusto-on-medical-cannabidiol-update/?fbclid=IwAR0MNEdGWA8hjhD6W406mRkUl_o74jV2zGv_PcHCOusfKaWIwwNRvlSBY-s
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T.I., Killer Mike, Candace Owens, & More Talk: Black Agenda, Voting, & Donald Trump | REVOLT Summit
A thorough conversation on race, immigration, gun control, black power, Donald Trump, voting, and more. From September 2019. Those who pay attention to the political teams and gamesmanship will be better prepared to make effective decisions in the field in real time, in fall 2020. This is more than marijuana. Killer Mike here mentions…
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Free Speech Lawsuit Coming Against Iowa GOP? Liberal Iowa Blogger Denied Press Credentials Exploring Legal Options, Fundraising
Bleeding Heartland has been in a public tisk over being denied press credentials to grant access to Kim Tipsy Reynolds press conferences or access to the House floor. I’ve been granted to the House floor, although it wasn’t as a member of the press. There is talk of a lawsuit at this point. I’ve been…
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Youth and Truth: Can Marijuana Lead To Enlightenment?
Gonna watch this one later for sure. Out yesterday from “Sadhguru Answers:”
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Here’s The Head Of Iowa’s Medical Cannabidiol’s Program’s Impressive Educational Background And Expertise
This man’s resume is truly outstanding. Owen Parker is heading up the legalistic aspects of the medical cannabis program here in Iowa and taking care of all the hard work while paying attention to details. He’s also done a really good job of having patience with Iowans through this transition from arbitrary limitations on civil…
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Volunteers Wanted: University of Iowa researcher looking at medical marijuana’s effect on older adults
Older Iowans who use marijuana products, it’s not too late to apply. KWWL 7 News has the details here.
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Out Of 5200 Iowa Patients Granted License To Use Marijuana, 68% Don’t Return To Iowa’s Cannabis Dispensaries (Allegedly)
Going to source this one but was wondering myself: how many people are actually dropping out of the Iowa program? Turns out, 2/3rds. From John Fenner, who both attended the Valentine’s Day CBD Advisory Board hearing and was featured on the news for doing so comes this insight. This post was made while John…
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Iowa Cannabis Advisory Board Meeting, Valentine’s Day 2020, Part TWO [VIDEO]
This is from Valentine’s Day 2020 in Des Moines at Ankeny DMACC, Livestream provided by MedPharm Iowa, as usual. Notable attendees: Representative Steven Holt, and Dr. Corey Burchman. Read about Dr. Burchman’s background education as Chief Medical Officer of one of Iowa’s major marijuana companies here: https://weedpress.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/corey-burchman-md-press-release-from-2019-shows-background-in-cannabinoid-education/ Part one of the hearing is here and…
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Corey Burchman, MD Press Release From 2019 Shows Background In Cannabinoid Education
https://www.biospace.com/article/-acreage-holdings-appoints-corey-burchman-md-as-chief-medical-officer/?fbclid=IwAR0rxiXFxfJeUtwsqxzpv46TQltSUOkeEmdvAsbXUS16SLXQ2i13SEKGYf0 Here’s an excerpt from the above press release: “Corey is a nationally recognized expert on clinical cannabinoid therapeutics and has chaired multiple national and international conferences on the use of medical cannabis for therapeutic purposes. He is the perfect fit for this critical position and will play an instrumental role in helping Acreage…
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Acreage Holdings Chief Medical Officer Corey Burchman spoke at yesterday’s CBD advisory board hearing
Been wondering when those guys would make an appearance worth paying attention to. Acreage Holdings background and involvement in Iowa will likely be an interesting story by someone in the future for sure. Having John Boehner on their side sure peaks my interest. Acreage Holdings is the parent company of Iowa Relief, which makes cannabis…
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Iowa Mom: DHS Taking Children From CBD Users, Marijuana Patients Should Be Top Priority In 2020
Here’s a note dropped in a patient group recently that should be read by orgs and supporters working on the issue. For more on the issue read: Soldiers are not the only ones who suffer from PTSD, I need to make that clear. Domestic violence survivors have PTSD especially when they were mentally abused.…
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Updates from Week 5 of the Iowa Legislative Session via Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition
*** Note: the following email from IHRC is being shared here because it includes excellent summaries of drug policy bills going through the plumbing at the golden downtown system in 2020. *** Legislative Updates from the State House It’s been a busy week at the state house in Des Moines during week five. From “Ending…
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2-14-2020
New Action based on your list: Marijuana . You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Legislation HSB 609 A bill for an act relating to controlled substances, including amending the controlled substance schedules, removing certain references to marijuana, making penalties applicable, and including effective date…
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Iowa Cannabis Advisory Board Meeting, Valentine’s Day 2020, Part 1 [VIDEO]
Runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes Part 2 here:
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LA County DA Moves To Dismiss 66,000 Marijuana-Related Convictions
Iowa Public Radio: LA County DA Moves To Dismiss 66,000 Marijuana-Related Convictions
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Iowa board denies panic disorders, ADD to illnesses that qualify for medical cannabis
Cynthia Foder at KCCI News Channel 8 has the details.
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Today’s Ankeny DMACC Hearing On Cannabis Program Has Faulty Video Due To WiFi Not Working
Technology issues today making putting video out there a bit harder. This is why it’s always/usually recommended activists bring a separate non-internet relying video camera to record, and a second backup device for audio in case the video doesn’t work. Sometimes people are nervous about bringing those items to hearings like this, and they should…
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Marijuana For PTSD Fight Not Yet Over — Here’s Why PTSD Was Rejected In The First Place
From MedPharm Iowa on Facebook comes this explanation about both why PTSD was denied, and how a new PTSD petition to fix this arbitrary language should get PTSD passed. MedPharm Iowa 7 February at 17:20 · Unfortunately the Iowa Board of Medicine voted this morning to deny PTSD in a 3 to 4 vote. Their…
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Iowa marijuana patient confronted Kim Reynolds last night at a town hall. Here’s what happened.
Writes an Iowa patient, “I saw the governor last night and again asked her about the increase in THC and she said to get a hold of your legislators I said I did and you vetoed The proposal she replied that yes she did because they were trying to set they weren’t they were trying…
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2-11-2020
New Action based on your list: Marijuana example. You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Legislation HSB 609 A bill for an act relating to controlled substances, including amending the controlled substance schedules, removing certain references to marijuana, making penalties applicable, and including effective date…
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Missouri: Charges dropped in precedent setting marijuana case
Matt Hoffman at News-Press NOW has the details. Child endangerment charges? Really Missouri? This was the first, and better be the last, time a patient with a medical card was arrested for using cannabis.
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Ankeny DMACC Tomorrow: Medical Cannabis Advisory Board Public Meeting, On Valentine’s Day At 10 AM
Upcoming Meeting Detail Title: Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Advisory Board – Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Date: 02/14/2020 Time: 10:00 am Location: Iowa Laboratory Facility – 2240 DMACC Blvd., Ankeny, IA Agenda: 02.14.2020 Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting Agenda Other Files: Draft Minutes: 11.01.2019 mCBD Board Meeting I guess it’s a date.
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A Really Good Article On Austrian Economics
Word has it quite a few libertarian leaning economists use marijuana as an intellectual aide in their writings and research. Here’s a good article by one of my favorite dudes from over in that school of thought, and I’m sharing it here, because I can. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/03/walter-e-block/im-an-austrian-economist-what-does-it-mean/ Perhaps the most important element of this intellectual diversity…
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Iowa Marijuana Bills And Rules Update: 2/12/20
New Action based on your list: Marijuana example. You requested to be notified of the following actions or changes to your watched bills and rules: Rule-Making Action ARC 4772C PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT [641] Medical cannabidiol program, 154.1, 154.2(4), 154.16(7), 154.22(4), 154.23(1), 154.25(2), 154.40(7) 02/12/2020 Document was tied to topic(s) – Controlled substances, Drugs, Health, Laboratories,…
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Judge: CBD company must forfeit hemp shipment to Idaho State Police
KTVB7: CBD and hemp have issues to work out, especially in states like Iowa where the police say hemp is the same thing as marijuana absent new legislation in 2020 to protect shipments from similar seizures. Essentially, the police and the hemp company are in a civil suit in court to figure this out…
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Could Someone Tell Brad Zaun Et Al To Stop Claiming He Represents Marijuana, Thanks
Iowa senators who move the needle on the marijuana narrative like this clearly aren’t listening to pot advocates. Brad Zaun claims 25 grams of THC is some kind of swing for the fences. Whatever happened to people standing up for what’s right, instead of what’s politically convenient? There are zero principled legislators at the 2020…
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Sen. Zaun wants more funding for mental health as well as expanded medical cannabis in Iowa
The Iowa Standard. Doubtful these tyrants will do anything useful this year or next.
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Senator Tom Greene implores Iowa to allow patients to use medical cannabis, notes use will be limited to certain Iowans
“Let the prescriber decide the dose, not the politicians,” says the Senator in today’s Iowa Standard. Senator Greene should know…his day job is being a pharmacist. Read the full article here in The Iowa Standard.
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After governor veto, Iowa House panel advances medical cannabis bill with stricter limits
CBS2Iowa’s Caroline Cummings writes this report concerning yesterday’s uninspiring marijuana news out of Des Moines.
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Ben From Iowa City: His Story
For more information, visit: https://www.iowaharmreductioncoalition.org/syringe-exchange/ Ben’s Story SSPs offer connections to treatment Ben is a 26 year old from Iowa City who has been using heroin for several years. In the fall of 2017, he met the Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition (IHRC) while they were conducting community outreach. He received a naloxone kit and was…
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Iowa Mom, Kim McVicker: Legalize Needle Exchange For Heroin Addicted Daughter
Below: Iowa State Police Association support for harm reduction, and mother Kim McVicker, whose daughter is in an Iowa correctional facility, speaks out on the need to legalize syringe exchange programs. The posting from Kim McVicker was taken from the IHRC Facebook page. Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition · 56 mins · “I’m Kim McVicker and…
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The Cancel Culture Attacks Mike Bloomberg
Ahhh, the fresh smell of gunpowder from political cancel-culture cannons long loaded, yet just recently fired: Details on the politically motivated attack on one of 2020’s ancient white males running for the nauseating “woke party” nomination is quite worthy of a read over at WMMT out of Michigan. Big money man and random presidential…
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EIGHT Iowa Marijuana Bills Get 2020 Subcommittee Assignments [DETAILS]
The following are active bills (click bill title to read full bill text) that are moving through subcommittees this rigged politically frustrating 2020 legislative session of liberty freedom hating big government whores. Will register on the legislative website as a lobbyist as “undecided” as per usual. New Action based on your list: Marijuana .…
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IDW’s Dr. Jordan Peterson Placed In Coma After Western Medicine Nearly Kills Him
Dr. Jordan Peterson Placed In Coma After Pharmaceuticals Nearly Kill Him North American hospitals had misdiagnosed him and nearly killed him as a result, says National Post. The man, the myth, and the legend, intellectual dark web superhero Jordan Peterson nearly died last month after having a bad reaction to benzodiazepines. Jordan was placed in…
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Schizophrenia Causes More Marijuana Use — By Ian Williams Goddard
Reposting from https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/02/ian-goddard/schizophrenia-causes-more-marijuana-use/. This is important, and on point. Schizophrenia Causes More Marijuana Use By Ian Williams Goddard February 8, 2020 Prohibitionists often cite the correlation between marijuana and schizophrenia as reason to oppose liberalization. However, correlation is not causation, and people with schizophrenia also use other psychoactive substances more than the general population. [1]…
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Breaking News: Iowa Board of Medicine Just Voted NO To PTSD In 3-4 Vote Against
Today’s early AM vote on adding PTSD to the Iowa medical cannabis program just came in. The lawmakers have given their ability to control the situation away to advisory boards. Good job, legislators. PTSD denied 3-4.
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PTSD Vote Friday At 9 AM: Call This Number! Public Comment Accepted By Telephone At Iowa Board of Medicine Meeting
Iowa Board of Medicine – Public Board Meeting Friday, Feb 7th, 9AM 400 SW 8th St., Suite C Des Moines, IA 50309 (Near the Des Moines Science Center) Make a public comment during the meeting! Phone in number: 866-685-1580 Call-in Code: 971-913-4151 Call the board at 9 am and tell them to vote yes…
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2-year-old taken away from parents because they used marijuana, killed by foster mother
Foster mother to server life sentence. (Fox 43) Foster mother’s husband was a recovering crack addict.
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Resources For Talking To Iowa Lawmakers About Marijuana In 2020
Source: http://www.rampgop.org/resources/ Use some of these excellent resources when speaking with your your lawmakers. Do Harsh Penalties for Marijuana Possession Reduce Teen Use? (PDF) Report by Marijuana Policy Project. The War on Marijuana in Black and White (PDF). Report by the American Civil Liberties Union. At the end of this document, there is a state-by-state…
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Do Firms Get High? The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Firm Performance, Corporate Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Activity
Do Firms Get High? The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Firm Performance, Corporate Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Activity Posted: 16 Jan 2020 Jue Wang University of Iowa – Department of Finance Shagun Pant University of Iowa – Department of Finance Tong Yao University of Iowa – Henry B. Tippie College of Business Date Written: June 25,…
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Republican Lawmaker Jeff Shipley’s Iowa House File 319, Clarifying Hemp Is Not Marijuana By State Law
Currently the two are conflated from what I understand, so this should end the problem and help make hemp products more easy to define as legal markets open up following passage of the 2018 farm bill. House File 319 is below from Republican Representative Jeff Shipley. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=HF319 House File 319 – Introduced HOUSE FILE 319…
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U of M’s Rebecca Shlafer, PhD Discusses Impact Of Incarceration On Children In Minnesota
A snapshot of the last several years research looking at the impact of incarceration on children and families in Minnesota. Published yesterday by the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services. Video has slideshow presentation included in the link. Some notable slides are below. Kids with incarcerated parents, or parents who had…
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Medical Marijuana Will Not Expand Unless We Talk About Full Legalization At Same Time To Keep Pressure On
According to today’s marijuana press conference on legalization in Minnesota
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[VIDEO] Minnesota House And Senate DFL News Conference On Legalizing Marijuana In Minnesota Just Happened
See also: DFL leader reveals plan for marijuana legalization in Minnesota (via Bring Me The News)
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Press Release: Hemp Boot Camp National Tour Continues in Preparing Key Agricultural States for the Fast-Growing Hemp & CBD Industries
Hemp Boot Camp National Tour Continues in Preparing Key Agricultural States for the Fast-Growing Hemp & CBD Industries The next one-day training will be in Des Moines, Iowa on February 29th, and will be followed by Wichita KS, Springfield IL, Columbia MO, and Indianapolis, IN Our Hemp Boot Camps will enable early-to-market participants to obtain…
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Iowa lawmakers want improved CBD labeling, regulations during 2020 lawmaking session
Meanwhile Senator Dawson of Iowa gives his opinion that while some CBD products are illegal in Iowa, some products are technically legal. From the Times-Republican last week: Labeling CBD products in Iowa Another portion of the bill would require more consumer-warning labeling in the sale of cannabidiol, better known as CBD. Sellers with CBD on…
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Minnesota Legislative Priorities For 2020
Copying and pasting full text from Sensible Change Minnesota here, for my own future reference. This is really well done. https://changemn.org/2020/02/03/sensible-change-minnesota-2020-legislative-agenda/?fbclid=IwAR1I0bB-awcvmFcfz0DzEZmBI4GWkd6WWEHGPdU8tqJH4JZGtJSv3iovcjs Sensible Change Minnesota’s Advocacy Committee is excited to share our Agenda for 2020! Medical Cannabis Improve Patient Access & Affordability Provide that any cannabis product, including raw cannabis flower produced by a Minnesota…
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2020 Allamakee County Attorney: CBD Is Still Illegal In 2020 In Iowa According To Attorney General Of Iowa
https://www.waukonstandard.com/articles/2020/01/08/2020-allamakee-county-attorney-report 2020 Allamakee County Attorney Report Submitted by Allamakee County Attorney Anthony Gericke Having completed my first year as Allamakee County Attorney, I felt an update to the county on the current state of this office should be an annual part of my duties as an elected official. The three most often asked questions I…
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Iowa Hitler Supporting White Supremacist Cannabis Activist Performs Black Magick At Iowa Capitol, Posts About It On Instagram [PICS]
Iowa Hitler Supporting White Supremacist Cannabis Activist Performs Black Magick At Iowa Capitol, Posts About It On Instagram [PICS] Cannabis 2020 will sure be interesting to report on here in Iowa this year. Former Florida cannabis magazine writer and witch political attack dog for hire Emily Phillips was hired by L Augustus Invictus to use black magick…
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History Of How Minnesota Made Their Medical Marijuana Law (2005-2020)
This isn’t entirely up to date but, for those of you who have been wondering, here is how the hot dog that is the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Law was made in Minnesota. 2005-2009 • MPP attempts to work with legislators, • Change at end to only terminal patients • Gov. Pawlenty vetoes 2010 • Dayton…
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Spencer Boston Facing New Charges After Sparking Joint In Courtroom and Lecturing Judge On Pot Laws
20 year old Spencer Boston of Lebanon Tennesse sure does have a lot of life experience. While lighting a joint in the judge’s courtroom, Spencer lectured the judge on the meaning of life while taking 6 puffs before being arrested for disorderly conduct. Ahhh, youth. Spencer is being held in jail on $3,000 bond, charged…
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Child Abuse For CBD? “Iowa Code allows for removal of a child with the approval of a judge,” say DHS emails
The following email, sent to statewide DHS workers on January 17th, tell the story of what happens when you purchase medicine over the counter from snake oil sales people. If you are using CBD illegally obtained at illegal outlets in Iowa, you could potentially lose your child. While I doubt it is going to be…
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Cannabis Advocate Connie Slayton Norgart: You Iowa Politicians Truly Are Abusing Your Elders, And Boy, It Really, Really Hurts
I’m Connie Slayton Norgart. I spoke in front of the senate when we started advocating for medical cannabis. Many others with diseases have been testifying in front of the senate. I had polio as a baby and developed post polio syndrome at age 35. My career as a nurse for 36 years included mainly state…
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The Legal Importance Of Understanding Between Legal CBD, And Illegal CBD
They’re the same molecule. One kind of CBD can get your kids reported to DHS, as internal emails to state employees showed last week. The other kind is specifically codified in Iowa law to not allow DHS interference — meaning legislators explicitly told DHS to not go after people if they have a medical cannabidiol…
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Illegal CBD Users Be Warned: Iowa Code Allows For Removal Of A Child From Parents Home For CBD Use, DHS Internal Emails Reveal
A somewhat concerning email sent late last week to Iowa DHS employees around Iowa appears to instruct workers to remove children from homes using over the counter CBD not purchased at state licensed dispensaries this past week. CBD has been extremely popular among consumers in Iowa the past two years, despite it’s illegality, and recent…
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Senate File 501 Looks To Be The One In 2020 For Iowa Marijuana Advances
Hopefully, this year won’t be a slap in the face and insult, like 2019. As of January 15, it was in subcommittee with Zaun, Sinclair and R. Taylor. Here’s the bill: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=SF501 Senate File 501 – Introduced SENATE FILE 501 BY COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY (SUCCESSOR TO SF 256) A BILL FOR An Act…
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Yes, PTSD Is On Iowa Board of Medicine’s February Agenda For Addition To Iowa’s Medical Program
We need everyone who can to come and speak in favor of PTSD at the meeting. For details on the February 7th 2020 meeting with the Iowa Board of Medicine, see this WeedPress article. Public comment is highly encouraged and requested at the meeting. It begins at 9 am. Iowa Board of Medicine’s Kent Nebel…
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Iowa Hemp Lobbyist Told Hemp Not Profitable At Statehouse Today
From the IHIA Facebook page earlier today: Iowa Hemp Industries Association 3 hrs · Our Lobbyist was working hard today for manufacturing amendments. We will keep at this tomorrow. Hard crowd. One legislator told me to my face there’s no money in Commodity Crop Hemp and walked away from me. Alright. Let’s keep moving.…
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Iowa Family Charged With Child Abuse Over CBD Oil
Why isn’t anybody working on regulating widely used illegal CBD to protect Iowa families and consumers? WeedPress has covered the CBD issue extensively since fall 2017, starting after a raid on a Muscatine CBD store lead to…nothing, legislatively or in the courts. Here’s one of the results of the widely used illegal and unregulated CBD…
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Des Moines City Clerk Claims Marijuana Decriminalization Is A State Function Outside Jurisdiction of City
I’m not saying this is the correct legal interpretation or the wrong, but I think it should be challenged and clarified as much as possible to make sure this isn’t a mistake. Committees make mistakes. I believe this committee was meeting on behalf of the Des Moines City Council.
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Seattle Christmas Day Protest: Canndalf the High Protests Drug War With Quiet Christmas Vigil Outside King County Jail
Incoming message from Canndalf the High in the War on Some Drugs: “Spent a couple of hours of my Christmas sitting vigil at King county jail in Seattle for those behind bars for a harmless plant. I hope y’all had a great Christmas” ~ Canndalf the High While the rest of America divulged in materialism…
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Iowa Postpones PTSD Addition Until Iowa Board Of Medicine Meets February 7th
From the Iowa Board of Medicine Facebook page: So as seen above, the Board of Medicine has PTSD and ID with self harming/aggression on the February 22nd agenda. Their website doesn’t have the agenda for February published yet. To see the agenda and news coverage of the important February meeting, which will ultimately decide the…
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Iowa Board of Medicine To Discuss Vaping, THC Limits This Thursday, December 19th
From the Board’s websiteis this agenda: pubagenda_12.19-20.19 I’m not sure if PTSD is being discussed at this meeting or not. I had assumed it was. Anyone know? F. Administrative Rules 1. CBD Program Statistics – First Year – 2019 2. Medical Cannabidiol Rules (ARC 4653C) Autism – Severe, Intractable Autism with Self-Injurious or Aggressive…
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Open Less Than A Month, Dubuque CBD Vendor Receives County Lawsuit In Federal Crackdown
KWWL News 7 has the scoop.
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MedPharm Iowa Official Statement Concerning Illegal CBD Drug Dealing Charges By Overzealous Law Enforcement
MedPharm Iowa response to recent events: With the recent events regarding CBD in Iowa, we felt it important to join in on the conversation. For official record: MedPharm Iowa had NO involvement with businesses across the state being directed to stop selling illegal CBD products. This weekend our patients and our staff endured the unfair…
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Kim Reynolds Visited Medpharm Iowa Last Week
Here’s some of the media coverage. First article was most popular on Facebook. KSCJ 94.9 FM REYNOLDS WILL NOT SUPPORT LEGALIZING MARIJUANA IN IOWA Reynolds toured the MedPharm Iowa facility in Des Moines this past week. The company grows and manufacturers the marijuana-infused products that are sold legally in Iowa as treatment for a limited…
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Marijuana Sale This Weekend! 20% Off Marijuana Products In Des Moines, Sioux City This Black Friday Weekend.
Dispensary locations below courtesy of the Office of Medical Cannabidiol: MedPharm Iowa – 7239 Apple Valley Drive, Windsor Heights, IA 50324 Mon: 11am-6pm Tues- Fri: 10am-6pm Sat: 9am-3pm Sun: Closed MedPharm Iowa – 5700 Sunnybrook Drive, Sioux City, IA 51106 Mon: 11am-6pm Tues – Fri: 10am-6pm Sat: 9am-3PM Sun: Closed
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El Paso, Texas City Council Votes in Favor of Cite and Release While Kim Reynolds Dodges Patients
NORML has the latest. Lots of decriminalization happening around the country. Meanwhile… Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana is paying a $250 cash reward for leverage against Reynolds for the upcoming 2020 legislative sessionings: Follow WeedPress on Facebook for more.
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Senator Grassley Form Letter On Marijuana Policy November 19th 2019
From an Iowan advocate comes the latest and greatest form letter from Chuck Grassley, who met with us about our legal argument and said we have it figured out correctly in Iowa. Chuck really knows his stuff on how this stuff works, which is why letters, while helpful, don’t resolve legal controversies. If you actually…
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Joe Biden Updates Marijuana Policies
I mean, the weed movement hates Biden, but still this is probably worthy of a post. All of this happened on the same day, by the way. From November 18th: There is a lot of talk out there on where I stand when it comes to our marijuana laws. Here are the facts: pic.twitter.com/oaoExCXud8 —…
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Just Announced Plan For Iowa Marijuana In 2020 From Senator Joe Bolkcom And Representative John Forbes!
Today’s notes in brief on this morning’s Iowa Statehouse announcements on medical cannabis efforts for 2020: 1. Kim Reynolds, Kim Reynolds, Kim Reynolds Senator Joe Bolkcom made plain the sole remaining obstacle to a decent, patient-centered cannabis program in Iowa. In today’s Iowa Statehouse announcement Livestreamed here on Facebook, Senator Bolkcom said, “This is…
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News Conference On Cannabis At Iowa Statehouse Room 116 Tomorrow Morning
Details here thanks to Senator Joe Bolkcom. Details Representative John Forbes and Senator Joe Bolkcom will outline how to fix Iowa’s “worst in the nation” medical cannabis program and provide affordable, local access to effective medicines. The public is welcome to attend
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Systemic Racism Is A Myth. Coleman Hughes Explains Why The Left Gets It Wrong.
Coleman Hughes interview on The Rubin Report shows evidence of what I’ve said for years: when black people start taking psychedelics with white people, racism disappears and is seen as hilariously absurd facially. This was a good one. Coleman talks about a therapeutic MDMA experience where he took MDMA, talked about race with a friend,…
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Marijuana Convicts Should Be First In Line To Get Legal Marijuana Sales Jobs
Good idea from former prosecutor Kamala “Tupac” Harris in Cosmopolitan Magazine.
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“Center For Food Safety” Releases Potentially Libelous CBD Scorecard
Note: It’s well known that my views on CBD are that it’s a joke of a medicine that is only being temporarily seized upon by opportunists — and, that it’s a good thing in the end for marijuana even if a bad thing for now — and it’s also well known that I’ve been fairly…
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Iowa Online Continuing Medical Education (CME) Opportunities — Medical Marijuana
Additional Online CME Opportunities TheAnswerPage The Answer Page is offering 22.5 CME, ANCC and ACPE credits in medical marijuana and risk management at a reduced subscription fee. The Medical Cannabis Institute The Medical Cannabis Institute is the nation’s leading online provider of ACCME and ANCC-certified medical education for the clinical application of medical cannabis. Our…
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Video: Iowa CBD Advisory Board Hearing Part 1 (November 1st MedPharm Livestream)
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Cannabidiol enhances anandamide signaling and alleviates psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia [2012 Double Blind Randomized Study]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316151/ Transl Psychiatry. 2012 Mar; 2(3): e94. Published online 2012 Mar 20. doi: 10.1038/tp.2012.15 PMCID: PMC3316151 PMID: 22832859 Abstract Cannabidiol is a component of marijuana that does not activate cannabinoid receptors, but moderately inhibits the degradation of the endocannabinoid anandamide. We previously reported that an elevation of anandamide levels in cerebrospinal fluid inversely correlated to psychotic…
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CBD/THC Replacing Expensive Prednisone For Myasthenia Gravis Patients Terrorizes Big Pharma
Dr. Joseph Mercola, supporter and promoter of holistic medicines with science backing them up, has this article out on the latest in cannabis science in 2019 where he writes, among other critically insightful things: Cannabis In Modern Medicine By Joseph Mercola Mercola.com Dr. Allan Frankel, a board-certified internist at GreenBridge Medical in Santa Monica,…
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Will The New USDA Hemp Rules Cause A Hemp Industry Crisis? Strict Regulations Have Lawyers Concerned.
One of my favorite lawyers to stay in touch with is Rod Kight. His blog is fantastic. Following his work for years, he’s always spot on. He hits the nail on the head again with this potential WARNING to the hemp industry. On October 29, 2019, USDA issued it’s much anticipated rules for hemp. In…
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No Surprise: Iowa CBD Board Votes No To Smokable Flower
Why they didn’t just take a 15 minute break is beyond me, but they’re too good and too important and aren’t here to serve us, as their body language makes clear here. Petition to add flower to the program in Iowa, as expected, didn’t pass.
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Advisory Board Votes No On Alzheimer’s Petition, But Yes On PTSD And Other Petitions
Alzheimer’s at this point will not be added to the program. Ignoring science, Peter Komendowski, the dude who makes a living off of lying and denying access to government, told the Board today that patients once denied marijuana should not abuse due process and file repeat petitions with the board. Who does he think he…
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Iowa Medical Cannabis Advisory Board Votes Yes To PTSD, Intellectual Disability, No To Opiate Use Disorder
Two out of three petitions today passed. Here’s some of the initial details. You’ll see it on the mainstream news tonight as well most likely. The “no” vote was unanimous concerning opioid use disorder. WeedPress: After Passing PTSD, Iowa Advisory Board Votes 5 – 1 To Add Intellectual Disability With Aggression And/Or Self-Injury Iowa Advisory…
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After Passing PTSD, Iowa Advisory Board Votes 5 – 1 To Add Intellectual Disability With Aggression And/Or Self-Injury
The Board of Medicine will now take up the petition as the next procedural step. Opioid Use Disorder is now being discussed. Here’s today’s Board agenda. See also: Iowa Advisory Board Votes To Pass PTSD, But Now Another Advisory Board Has To Approve It Too
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Iowa Advisory Board Votes To Pass PTSD, But Now Another Advisory Board Has To Approve It Too
The Board isn’t that coy, they know they are a target for being relegislated out of existence since committing mutiny against the Iowa Legislature, and we shouldn’t cut corners. I predicted the Board would vote down PTSD, and am pleasantly surprised this advanced. It doesn’t make sense not to pass it from a freedom point…
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Iowa FFA Students Tour Hemp Processing Facility During National Convention
The warehouse Iowa children visited to learn about hemp is in Hoosier land. Hat Tip to Fred Perryman for the post share. 2019 looks fantastic in the rearview for Iowa cannabis reform efforts, and 2020 looks to be anything but disappointing too! Hemp warehouse employee Reina Bannister said on Facebook, “A big day at…
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Iowa farmers one step closer to legally grown hemp
KCCI explains a rule coming out today that brings us closer to finally having CBD legal, and other hemp products, in Iowa. CBD is currently illegal still.
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Interview With Craig J. Cesal, Federal Lifer For First-Time Marijuana Offense
“The trouble [with injustice] is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.” —Arundhati Roy For more articles, keep following. Gonna blow this case up. Article, From A Federal…
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Article, From A Federal Prisoner Sentenced To Life Without The Possibility Of Parole As A First-Time Offender
The following is an article by Craig J. Cesal, a federal prisoner sentenced to life without the possibility of parole as a first-time offender convicted of conspiring to distribute marijuana. I am a first-time offender convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana. In 2002, my Chicagoland truck repair facility serviced semis a Florida company used to…
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Illinois Vets Can Treat PTSD With Cannabis. Friday Vote To Add PTSD To Iowa Cannabis Program Should Pass Too, Says Senator Bolkcom
Follow Senator Joe Bolkcom on Facebook. Friday is in two days. Have you emailed the Board yet? Senator Bolkcom writes on his Facebook below, Illinois’ medical cannabis program is separate from their recreational program because they want to make sure it will continue if the recreational program is repealed in the future. “Along with…
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Immediate Call To Action From Senator Bolkcom — Please Email Iowa Advisory Board Before Friday November 1st To Support PTSD
The Veterans Administration’s position on medical marijuana is no longer terrible. Time for Iowa to catch up to the rest of the country. More from the Veterans Administration: “Veteran participation in state marijuana programs does not affect eligibility for VA care and services. VA providers can and do discuss marijuana use with Veterans as part…
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Davenport’s Two Bridges Lead Iowans To Legal Cannabis Selling Towns In Nearby Illinois. How That Might Effect Cannabis Use Rates.
From the Quad-City Times — Moline approves developing zoning regulations for cannabis businesses: “Alderman Dick Potter, 4th Ward, said the legalization of cannabis is long overdue.” It’s a boring article where councilmen dicker and worry about social costs of freedom and liberty from a completely uninformed and blatantly oblivious point of view. Interesting point…
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Mississippi Officials: CBD Is Illegal, And Worse, Completely Unsafe And Labelled Wrong/Hiding Dangerous Narcotics
Critically important information that keeps being repeated nationwide as each state agency looks into this issue. Easily solved by regulations and oversight, by the way. From WTOK: JACKSON, Miss. (WTOK) – Top officials from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and the Mississippi Department of Health held a joint press…
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Iowa Public Radio: Some Pregnant Women Use Weed For Morning Sickness But…
…FDA Cautions Against It (click link for Iowa Public Radio story on cannabis use by pregnant women). Studies show more women in the US are using cannabis during pregnancy. In 2009, when I was first becoming an activist, the Iowa Board of Pharmacy heard testimony on medical cannabis users in Jamaica who were pregnant. The…
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Kraft-Heinz Invests Whopping $23 Million Into Cannabis Startup Flowhub
International Business Times has the details. Kevin Sabet at SAM deserves thanks for the tip into this fantastic business venture. Attention Pot Legalizers: You’re gonna make KRAFT-HEINZ very rich. Happy?https://t.co/hXJt28Agz8 — Kevin Sabet (@KevinSabet) October 28, 2019
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Myth Debunked: Nobody Is Handing Out THC Laced Edibles On Halloween (And Why Regulating Drugs Prevent Laced Products Ending Up In The Wrong Hands)
NBC News explains: The Halloween tale of marijuana handed out to trick-or-treaters is as real as a ghost story Telling parents to fear that their kids might be handed an expensive edible is just another way to make marijuana and its users the boogeyman. Police and parents across the country are currently freaking out that…
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Iowa Department of Public Health: “Hemp Based CBD Is Not Legal In Iowa”
Anyone else who tells you otherwise is willingly blind or selling you something (idea, product, etc). Nobody in Iowa has challenged this law in two years, and multiple Iowa businesses have been raided by law enforcement. So, until the Iowa Legislature legalizes it at the state level, it’s not legal. USDA statements are not state…
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Joe Biden: Worst Democratic Candidate On Marijuana
Here’s why. “Joe Biden is the worst candidate running for president when it comes to marijuana policy and anyone who holds reform as a very important or somewhat important issue should find another candidate in the Democratic field,” Strekal told NJ Cannabis Insider. The reason? Rescheduling cannabis would remind “prosecutors and other law…
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Decriminalization In Iowa’s Tiny Problem (And A Possible Solution)
Problem: ballot initiatives, or city code changes, must not violate state or federal law: Decriminalize marijuana, Cedar Rapids City Council candidate urges A Cedar Rapids City Council candidate says Iowa’s second-largest city should be a statewide leader by decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. Jorel Robinson, 32, proposes refocusing criminal justice resources to “encourage…
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I Got $7,000 In Fines For $200 Of Pot… Jamaica Iowa Mayor Gets 100 Hours Community Service For Grow Op.
DMACC President David England got a similar sweetheart deal. This system is geared to fuck poor people and minorities while the rich get off the hook. Sweet. Oh yeah — and my hometown of Milo Iowa, where meth is rampant, and the County Sheriff DARE officer dude got busted with two pounds of weed in…
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Vaping Crisis Hasn’t Blunted Marijuana Legalization Support By Public, Gallup Poll Shows
Tom Angell has the latest in Forbes. Tom Angell has the latest in Forbes.
WeedPress: The Paper Trail 