Tag: Federal Law
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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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APA Concerns Delayed Rescheduling
Not surprising. Makes a lot of sense if you’ve studied administrative law for a few thousand hours.
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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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New Iowa Cannabis Lobbyist Network Incorporates
A new Iowa marijuana lobbying organization has incorporated as of November 22, 2025. Meet the Iowa Cannabis Action Network: Started by this lady: I’ve talked a few times with Gina over the past few years. I’ll let her do her own introductions. But I liked Gina, she’s very likable and approachable, and recall having encouraged…
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Petition To South Dakota Legislature Senate And House Leadership
Copy To: President of the South Dakota Senate Copy to: Speaker of the South Dakota House This petition is submitted pursuant to: South Dakota Constitution 0N-6-4§ 4: § 4. Right of petition and peaceable assembly. The right of petition, and of the people peaceably to assemble to consult for the common good and make known their opinions, shall never be abridged.…
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Olsen v. DEA, 878 F.2d 1458, 1461 (D.C. Cir. 1989)
The DEA’s contention that Congress directed the Administrator automatically to turn away all churches save one opens a grave constitutional question. A statutory exemption authorized for one church alone, and for which no other church may qualify, presents a “denominational preference” not easily reconciled with the establishment clause. See Larson v. Valente, 456 U.S. 228, 245,…
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RFRA Changes The Cannabis Game; Fulfills My Prediction Religious Cannabis Constitutional Claims
Prior to RFRA state laws, I argued the first amendment right to religion would bring constitutional rulings for individuals protecting religious access to cannabis in private prayer. I think this is still the inevitable end result of cannabis litigations. There are several things to note about the RFRA.
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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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Nebraska Judge Dismisses Kuehn Lawsuit Seeking To Block Med Cannabis
Sources tell WeedPress John Kuehn’s legal team will appeal this inevitably predictable ruling long expected. But, the lawsuit seeking to stop medical cannabis laws from being implemented has been dismissed. The merits of whether state medical cannabis programs are lawful under federal law remains to be litigated. Smart Approaches to Marijuana keeps making very not…
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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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Timeline so far
October 2nd began two years October 22nd: state probation first meeting probation officer advised Nebraska probation was not allowing my active med card as an exemption. I advised I would file for a religious exemption with Nebraska to use federally lawful hemp so as not to be a federal criminal with medical cannabis. Friday November…
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27 States Will Automatically Reschedule Cannabis Once The Feds Reschedule
Credit and gratitude to Vicente LLP for providing the following legal research and findings to us here at WeedPress. The state scheduling procedure is triggered automatically by a federal schedule change in the following 27 states. The state must control the substance in accord with federal law unless the state regulatory body controlling the CSA…
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TODAY: South Dakota DPH Townhall Question By Jason Karimi Concerning Federal Exemption Processes for State Marijuana Programs
I am currently in line on the phone for South Dakota’s Department of Health cannabis town hall today. The Department of Health townhall is being recorded, including the public’s questions during a public comment period. My question is as follows given the one minute time limit. I currently represent 15,000 medical marijuana patients in Iowa…
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Hawaii Wants DEA To Exempt State Marijuana Laws From Federal Interference Update: Hawaii’s Committee On Judiciary Votes “Aye” | April 16 2021
Welcome back to WeedPress. Here is today’s update. Relevant law: Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 Section 1307.03 Precedent: Peyote is exempt for non-medical use from federal laws in certain states. Full details seen here courtesy of the Iowa news site Bleeding Heartland and was published just this week by one of the founders of…
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Carl Olsen on the 1307.03 DEA Exemption (video) | IMPORTANT | The Richard Rose Report
Click here to watch this interview over at the Richard Rose Report. I’ve chosen to spend an entire decade of my youthful life pursuing and learning this strategy full-time, and I do not intend to lose here. Here’s a video on policy hero Carl Olsen on the DEA 1307.03 Federal Exemption for state Medical Cannabis…
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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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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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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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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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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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CBD WARNING: Iowa Drug Task Force CBD Illegal Until At Least Fall 2019
Looks like two years of reporting on this CBD legalese con-fusion has given me some interesting insights. 1, prohibition doesn’t work, and CBD salespeople see this as an avenue to civil disobedience; 2, CBD people are selling fake products with pesticides, mislabeling the amounts of CBD in their products, and lying about legality (Hempworx to…
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Here’s The Imperfect Medical Marijuana Bill Passed At The Statehouse Today After Six Years Of Work
Uploading video to YouTube so you can watch the full discourse for yourself and make up your own mind. Thanks for following WeedPress on Facebook. Today’s vote was nearly unanimous. House File 732 had various amendments offered. Representative Jeff Shipley’s amendment was withdrawn. He spoke about being confused as to why marijuana is controversial, that…
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LEGAL: Affirmative Defenses For Healthcare Practitioners From The IDPH Website
Affirmative Defenses for Health Care Practitioners Iowa Code chapter 124E.12 (1) – A health care practitioner, including any authorized agent or employee thereof, shall not be subject to prosecution for the unlawful certification, possession, or administration of marijuana under the laws of this state for activities arising directly out of or directly related to the certification…
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PHOTO: New Medical Marijuana Dispensary In Windsor Heights Iowa “Coming Along Nicely”
MedPharm Iowa Cannabis Dispensary Construction “Coming Along Nicely,” Says Group Medical cannabis dispensary signage in Windsor Heights announces end of marijuana debate, beginning of federally compliant medical program for Iowa despite patient criticism
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![Iowa Press Debates: Democratic Gubernatorial Primary (Iowa Marijuana Program Discussed Extensively at 53 Minute Mark) [VIDEO]](https://weedpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/linda-upmeyer-2.jpg?w=1024)
Iowa Press Debates: Democratic Gubernatorial Primary (Iowa Marijuana Program Discussed Extensively at 53 Minute Mark) [VIDEO]
53:42 Mrs. McGuire. Another health issue. Medical marijuana. [Cathy Glasson snickers] Doctors are reluctant to recommend it as treatment because under the federal law it’s still a controlled substance. How do you resolve that without action at the federal level? Dr. McGuire: Well I think you have to do something with the state to…
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