Tag: constitution
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Two Religious Cannabis Cases Now Proceeding in Nebraska
My case, and a church member of mine, are proceeding in Nebraska. Mine is a probation challenge stating probation can’t restrict private not for profit religious use when the state is allowing and legislating secular medical exemptions. The second case I won’t report on so as not to screw up important litigation strategies but I…
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DEA Brief in Iowaska Healing Church Iowa Lawsuit July 2025
Download the DEA brief at the above link. Case concerns an ayahuasca church demanding religious exemption to use ayahuasca in ceremony as their sacrament. Interesting brief.
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Standing Granted In Religious Cannabis Lawsuit
A case I’m working on for a religious cannabis lawsuit demanding equal access to state authorized medical dispensaries via some remedy entailing a separate process for religious users to apply for a religious card has been granted standing following the state’s motion to dismiss. The case will now move on to the merits. I am…
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HHS Updated The Old Scientific Test For Scheduling, Lawyer Expert Shane Pennington Explains
SLAM DUNK. This points to the argument I’ve been making here on WeedPress since I first served a lawsuit in 2011 on a state, on the grounds that intrastate medical cannabis programs made Schedule one classification of cannabis null and void. Intrastate cannabis programs are literally evidence of “accepted medical use in the United States,”…
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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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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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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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Missouri Marijuana Lobbyist Granted Pre-Trial Release Following Federal Charges
Initially reported as facing up to 25 years in prison a well-known and highly respected cannabis activist appears to have taken a cash donation and gotten charged in a conspiracy to distribute marijuana charge as a result. ABC 17 KIMZ News says, “Eapen Thampy was given pretrial release after a hearing in the Jefferson City…
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Iowa House Legalizes Hemp — On To Governor’s Desk
Representative Jeff Shipley announced the vote on Facebook an hour ago: The Gazette: Iowa House OKs Hemp Farming, Though Some See Limited Opportunity
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[VIDEO] We Handed Out Pot Brownies At Iowa State University Today… Here’s How Students Responded
Next time we should try beer pong…
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Alex Jones, Other Pro-Cannabis Facebook Pages Being Brutalized In Coordinated Censorship Attempts From CNN, Mainstream News
Apparently from what we’ve gathered over here at WeedPress, Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist and artist of controversy/character extraordinaire, has been removed from YouTube and other social media apps after a private meeting with CEO’s from said apps, and CNN. The thrust of the argument is Jones said something that made people uncomfortable. He deigned to…
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Here’s Why Iowa Medical Marijuana Patients Are Mad And Signing Petitions While Discussing Potential Lawsuits Against The State In Their Own Words #Lawsuits #Petitions #Redress #Grievance
The comments on a popular petition requesting Iowa state officials provide continuing education courses for doctors by utilizing currently existing University courses from around the world may bring you to tears. Trigger warnings: these are parents suffering for their kids. Click here if you’re from Iowa to sign this petition. Before the comments from Iowans,…
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Oskaloosa High School Cheer Coach FIRED For Medical Marijuana Facebook Post? Miss Iowa United States Weighs In
After a national precedent setting appeals court case with a payout of $353,000 over a T-shirt that was officially licensed by Iowa State University, an Oskaloosa, Iowa High School cheerleading coach seems to have been fired from her position as a student role model and leader for her opinion that marijuana is an issue worth…
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“The Governor supports medical cannabis, because that is the official position of his administration”
While Governor Branstad understandably opposes loosely regulated states like California, Branstad’s administration officially supports medical cannabis. If that confuses you, read on. Longtime cannabis activist Carl Olsen opines: George McMahon is one of two Iowans who legally use medical cannabis. George is pictured here outside of the Board hearing in Mason City, Iowa, as he…
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Minnesota: Cops Return Cannabis Pipe to 15 Year Old Rastafarian Following Ruling by Supreme Court
WeedPress broke the news two years ago about Rastafarian Jamison Arend’s legal exemption to smoke cannabis while on probation. Earlier this month, following a Court of Appeals ruling, Jamison’s son, “J.J.M.A.,” had a confiscated cannabis pipe returned to him from police evidence after the Court ruled J.J.M.A. had a religious right to possess the pipe.…
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Minnesota Court of Appeals: 15 Year Old Rastafarian Has Religious Right To Possess Cannabis Pipe
See also: BREAKING NEWS: Quad City Times, Reason Magazine, Highlight Iowa Man’s Struggle To Cure Cancer Using Cannabis Oil Another victory for the religious use of cannabis has come out of the courts in Minnesota! Last Monday, a ruling from the Minnesota Court of Appeals (copy of the ruling is at end of this article)…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Program Unconstitutional
Prohibitively unconstitutional, that is. I just printed off the 109 page ruling by Justice Donald Taliano. Thanks to the hard work of Canadian activists, including Cannabis Culture contributor Matthew Mernagh, this monumental decision brought an interesting question to mind: is there a similar argument to be made here in the States? Cannabis Culture’s article on…
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