Tag: Drug War
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Cannabis Movement Ending Era Of Personalities
The cannabis world is structurally changing. It’s moving away from informal, personality-driven, relationship-based influence and toward: 1. compliance-heavy operations 2. institutional capital 3. audited finances 4. federal-facing regulatory posture 5. documentation, transparency, and risk controls That shift favors people and organizations that are: 1. procedurally clean 2. boring in a good way 3. compliance-literate 4.…
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Truck Drivers Can Use Cannabis Under Schedule 3 Absent Policy Interventions
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/drug-testing-industry-group-is-sounding-the-alarm-about-marijuana-rescheduling-as-trump-plans-action/ I’m now a solo advocate and quit representing other people as the entire weed movement and all its groups desire criminality, rebellion, and cool kid ego games and I can’t do it any longer. When I say that, as cannabis advocates, we cannot unleash regulations that don’t respect public health and safety, or programs…
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FDA Says Iowa’s Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Risk Federal Funds For Academic Institutions
POLITICS FDA Says Iowa’s Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Risk Federal Funds For Academic Institutions https://www.marijuanamoment.net/fda-says-iowas-medical-marijuana-law-doesnt-risk-federal-funds-for-academic-institutions/
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![Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Meeting, Friday September 15 2023 [TRANSCRIPT] [VIDEO]](https://weedpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cbd-meeting-1-757569946-e1694976751515.png?w=1024)
Iowa Medical Cannabidiol Meeting, Friday September 15 2023 [TRANSCRIPT] [VIDEO]
I missed the first part, but here is the final 55 minutes of video, audio, and transcribed text, from Friday’s meeting this month of Iowa’s medical cannabis advisory board meeting. Medical Cannabidiol Board Meeting September 15 2023 (Transcript) Owen Parker: [00:00:00] Yeah, so we’ve been able to do, like I can introduce some of the…
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Arkansas Judge Allows Medical Marijuana Use For Probationers On Case-By-Case Basis
Judges applying the law sporadically and without consistency make the question of state vs federal marijuana laws a ripe issue for the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS). SCOTUS is likely going to have to resolve this issue by giving guidance to be applied equally in every state across the country. Right now, the law is being…
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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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The “New Meth:” The Atlantic
If you’re working on drug policy, do not miss this article from the Atlantic on how a new form of meth is a likely factor contributing to violence, mental illness, and riots nationwide. Here’s an excerpt: “Once your eyes are open to the scale and human consequences of the P2P-meth epidemic, it’s hard to miss its…
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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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![Iowa Public Radio’s Ben Kieffer Hosts WeedPress For An Hour Long Discussion At Iowa Capitol Law Library [TRANSCRIPT SOON]](https://weedpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/weedpress-april-2nd-2019-iowa-public-radio-interview.png?w=726)
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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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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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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Jamaica Iowa Mayor Pleads Guilty On Marijuana Charges
Former Jamaica mayor, husband plead guilty to pot charges (KCCI) Sentence was probation. 18 plants were found during a search for a suspected murder suspect. Interesting weird part of case was the warrant being issued up around 420 PM.
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Kamala Harris Makes Light Of The Marijuana Issue…And The Marijuana Movement Responds Indignantly (Even Her Jamaican Father Says Get Bent)
Former prosecutor Kamala Harris — no doubt guilt ridden (but is she really) about locking up thousands of people for marijuana possession while herself bragging about being too privileged to have to worry about the same consequences — got backlash from a fellow Presidential candidate in Davenport Iowa Sunday: From Reason Magazine: Booker’s point was…
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JUST ANNOUNCED: IHRC Accepting Applications For New Members For Their Board of Directors
Join our Board of Directors. IHRC is now accepting applications for new members for our Board of Directors. IHRC is growing, and so is our board. In particular, we are looking for individuals who are community organizers, experts in civil and human rights law, affordable housing specialists, leaders in communities of color, and accounting and…
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Cedar Rapids 420 Drug War Checkpoint Turned Up Sketchy Constitutional Arguments — Was This Checkpoint’s Procedures Even Fully Legal?
In 2018, the Cedar Rapids Police Department announced that they would be ignoring prescription drugged driving to focus on stoned driving. Check out their post and write to us if you were one of the victims. <a href=”>https://www.facebook.com/WeedPress-137129759688948/”>Follow WeedPress on Facebook</a> Cedar Rapids Police Department 16 April · The Cedar Rapids Police Department will be…
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Ethan Nadelmann: We Hit A Drug Policy Tipping Point
H/t Legalize Iowa. Follow them on Facebook! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ5ZAcgZrkc: Follow WeedPress on Facebook
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Hawaii: Rastafarian To Begin Jury Trial Monday After Four Year Delay
Reverend Nancy Harris is finally getting her day in court. Reverend Harris, facing a charge of “commercial promotion of marijuana” from a raid back in February of 2007, will be in court Monday morning to begin her jury trial. Rather than accepting a plea deal offered by prosecution that amounted to a slap on the…
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Army Drug Counselor Caught Dealing Cocaine, Highlights Drug War Failures
This past Friday was the 40th Anniversary of the War on Drugs, and it looks like people are rethinking drug policy more than ever. CBS News reported the recent report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which stated what marijuana activists have known for a long time: the War on Drugs, specifically the marijuana…
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Iowa State Police Association Lobbying for Removal of Marijuana From Schedule I
While looking at lobbyist declarations for the Iowa Board of Pharmacy’s SSB 1016 (removal of marijuana from schedule I to two to recognize “medically accepted use in the United States”), I saw something interesting: the Iowa State Police Association, previously “Undecided,” is now “For” the bill. Senate Study Bill 1016, this year’s annual Iowa Board…
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Obama: Legalizing Drugs Worthy of Debate
Obama didn’t say anything truly spectacular. He is still against legalization. At least he acknowledged the question, rather than laughing it off. Nice change of rhetoric, Mr. President. Much appreciated. Now, where’s the Change?
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