Tag: Regulate Marijuana
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Des Moines Register: “In decades as an Iowa warden, I learned how mandatory sentences, ill-considered programs and more keep inmates and prisons from success”
Writes former prison warden John Mathes in today’s Des Moines Register: “My recommendation is to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana and implement a system of regulating, licensing, and taxing this like we do for alcohol.” Read the full article here in today’s Des Moines Register (Monday, August 17th, 2020). It has 8 policy proposals or…
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[VIDEO] Press Conference With A Press Release Calling For Reasonably Regulated Marijuana In Iowa Instead Of Blanket Prohibition On Point | Iowa Senator Joe Bolkcom’s February Call To Action Unheeded So Far
Details below the video: Joe Bolkcom News Release For Immediate Release: 2/4/2019 Senator Joe Bolkcom: 319-337-6280 Iowa Should Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol Ending Iowa Marijuana Prohibition will reduce harm to residents, save tax dollars, and create Iowa jobs, businesses and additional revenue (Des Moines) State Senator Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City today announced he is…
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Senator Bolkcom Letter to the Editor: Regulate marijuana
Read his full letter to the editor from Senator Bolkcom here. Originally posted in the Winter 2019 issue of The Prairie Progressive, Iowa’s oldest progressive newsletter
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