Tag: Congress
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“Unlocked Potential: Small Businesses in the Cannabis Industry”
In 2019, senior legal fellow Paul J. Larkin Jr. provided testimony titled “Unlocked Potential: Small Businesses in the Cannabis Industry” before the U.S. House Small Business Committee. Key Points on Business Impacts and Policy Recommendations • Differential Impacts: The testimony acknowledges that federal prohibition creates barriers for all cannabis businesses but notes that small operators…
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How Kim Reynolds Bullied Iowa City Council Members Out of Decriminalizing Marijuana
Iowa city council members who wished to decriminalize marijuana tell Iowa cannabis activists Kim Reynolds threatened to take away city funds from the state if the city council pursues marijuana decriminalization. As of today Kim Reynolds is the most unpopular governor in the country. Republicans stifling debate on a winning political issue using threats to…
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Senator John Thune: Federal Solution To State Medical Marijuana Laws In Hands Of State, Not Congress
Senator John Thune’s office had me come install a TV mount for them and while there I asked a question. I got a letter in response that wasn’t a form letter at all. Below is the recording I made of my phone call to the state Attorney Generals office. I am also contacting the governor…
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Open Letter to Tucker Carlson: The Real Opioid Story
China, Mexico, pharmaceutical companies, Obama, Congress, the DEA… DEA agents, retiring from DEA, were hired by the dozens by drug dealers pharmaceutical corporations. These former DEA agents used their insider knowledge to pass new laws that protected the drug dealers pharmaceutical corporations from having their shipments of fentanyl pills seized by DEA. Pharma knows their…
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AFP Applauds Republican House Members for Introduction of States Reform Act
AFP Applauds Republican House Members for Introduction of States Reform Act NOV 15, 2021 BY AFP Arlington, Va. – Americans for Prosperity (AFP) applauded Representative Nancy Mace for her introduction of the States Reform Act. This comprehensive reform of federal marijuana policy will restore states’ rights and allow state leaders to choose the best marijuana policies…
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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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Minnesota Republican Congressman Says “No” To The Second Amendment For Cannabis Consumers
A Republican in Minnesota doesn’t want to talk about the second amendment. At least, not yet. Minnesota advocate and President of Sensible Minnesota, Maren Joyce Schroeder, reporting via Facebook, says Congressman Jim Hagedorn didn’t want to discuss the second amendment thoroughly earlier this summer. Here’s her take on the brief conversation: Maren Joyce Schroeder 5…
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Multiple Iowa Legislators Promise Bipartisan Work In 2020 To Send Official Letter to Federal Government to Respect State Medical Marijuana Laws In 2020 And Remove Schedule I
In what appears to be a major breakthrough in understanding marijuana policy, a proposal to draft and vote on an important resolution in 2020 was vocalized by Democrats and Republicans in the Iowa Senate during final discussion on the latest expansion to the five year old medical cannabidiol program in the state of Iowa. Here’s…
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This Drug Overdose Was Completely $@#%#~! Preventable | A Personal Tribute To Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition’s Andrew Beeler, Drug War Victim In 2019
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you…misguided and hate based drug policy and demonization of drug users must change. Right the fuck now. The Iowa Press Citizen wrote a tribute: He died of an overdose, but he’ll be remembered for helping others avoid a similar fate Below is Sarah Ziegenhorn, Executive Director and founder…
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The Cannabis Industry Knows It’s Getting Wiped Out By Magna Cum Laude Business Owners And Real Professionals Like Iowa Marijuana Licensee Investor John Boehner (And Weed Isn’t All That Hard To Figure Out)
According to one of the first industry pioneers who helped WeedMaps acquire a $4 million marijuana.com business deal, Queen Nicholas West (speech shared by DJ Nick Tanem: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnicholewest143%2Fvideos%2F10156395589068167%2F&show_text=0&width=267 A good overarching perspective for those who still believe they are going to remain relative after the Hindsight Election (2020).
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Has Congress Officially Approved the Medical Use of Marijuana? Lawsuit Filed in Federal Court Seeks to Find Out
Has Congress officially legalized the medical use of marijuana? Now that Washington D.C.’s medical marijuana program is moving forward, a lawsuit against the federal government seeks to find out. Naming Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray as Defendants Sibley v Obama et al could end up being the biggest medical marijuana…
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