Tag: First Amendment
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Weedpress Editorial Policy 2026
WeedPress Editorial Policy & Publishing Standards WeedPress is a public-interest journalism and public-record analysis project. Our purpose is to document, archive, and analyze public records, legislation, court filings, and official statements related to public policy, regulatory systems, and civic process. Publishing Standards WeedPress adheres to the following standards: • No personal targeting of private individuals…
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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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Part 3: The Soft Wall
Reader note: This blog post protected by the constitution’s first amendment. Part 1: https://weedpress.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/the-difference-between-authority-and-control/ Part 2: https://weedpress.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/the-architecture-of-moral-power/ The Soft Wall There is a kind of censorship that does not look like censorship. It does not ban speech. It does not raid offices. It does not seize printing presses. It simply makes certain voices hard to…
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The Architecture of Moral Power
Reader note: This blog post protected by the constitution’s first amendment. Modern influence is no longer built primarily on results. It is built on positioning. Who is perceived as “good.” Who is framed as “safe.” Who is considered “above scrutiny.” These perceptions now function as a form of political armor. Moral Positioning as Infrastructure Reputation…
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Petition To White House Faith Office For Religious Protections For Rastafarians (DRAFT)
Subject: Petition for Religious Exemption for the Sacramental Use of Cannabis Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) Date: 12-18-2025 To: The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships The White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500 Dear Director and Staff of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Mr. Karimi, the undersigned, respectfully…
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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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Why DEA Religious Guidance For Religious Mushrooms Was Issued
As my personal understanding currently stands, Agencies cannot consider constitutional issues so this DEA religious guidance is a moot point. It essentially says, write DEA a letter to ask for exemption. That is consistent with the process for states to apply for federal exemption for medical cannabis programs as well, so that is technically correct,…
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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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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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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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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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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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Bleeding Heartland Had An Interesting Insight On Representative Jeff Shipley’s Body Language From House File 732 Discussion
Read “Iowa House Approves Small Step On Medical Cannabis” in yesterday’s Bleeding Heartland: “EVERYONE TOLD ME NOT TO DO IT” House File 732 might not have come to a vote at all. Republican State Representative Jeff Shipley had offered his own amendment, which would have added a dozen new qualifying medical conditions and redefined “medical…
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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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Check Out This Flyer For Marijuana Church GreenFaith Ministries America/Jamaica
https://www.facebook.com/GreenFaith/Greenfaith Ministries can be followed here on Facebook for more info. Reverend Brandon Baker, founder, is pictured below holding a chalice up in prayer during a ceremony.
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More Updates As Facebook Suspends Iowa Marijuana Activist Account — Purge Consuming Ron Paul Institute Director, Antiwar.com, Other Journalists — Are You Next?
Social media accounts have been known to censor and limit political discourse for years. We talked about it in 2011 with Ron Paul at a meeting of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter Presidents during national convention. Now, the public is finding out about selective political censorship as Alex Jones, Ron Paul, Justin Raimondo, and…
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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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MN NORML’s Thomas Gallagher with an excellent interview on the podcast “Haughty By Nature”
https://www.haughtypodcast.com/listen/2018/4/24/36-haughty-420-with-mn-normls-tom-gallagher 36 – Haughty 420 with MN NORML’s Thomas Gallagher Karl, Gary & Branden chat with Minnesota NORML chair Thomas Gallagher on all things cannabis. You can find more information about MN NORML here: http://mnnorml.org
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#ActionAlert May 10th Court Hearing In The Matter Of Property (0% THC CBD food supplements) Seized From Carrie Bluml By Carroll Police Department’s JJ Schreck (aka Lori Campbell? lol)
From Iowa Courts Online: Title: IN THE MATTER OF PROPERTY SEIZED FROM CARRIE BLUML Case: 02141 SPCV039953 (CARROLL) Citation Number: Event Filed By Filed Create Date Last Updated Action Date ORDER SETTING HEARING NEU A ERIC 04/24/2018 04/25/2018 04/25/2018 Comments: SEIZED PROPERTY 05/10/2018 09:30 AM MAG. From Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana: Facebook event:…
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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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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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