Tag: Reschedule
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August’s Office of mCBD Hearing Has Been Rescheduled — Iowa Cannabis Advocates Invited To Attend September 4 at 10 AM
For more of the latest breaking news in the Iowa mCBD program experiment, follow WeedPress on Facebook by clicking here and giving us a “like!” See you September 4th during the virtual meeting. Multiple WeedPress contributors will be taking part. Video from the last hearing in June can be seen here if you haven’t seen…
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Iowa Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Update: Attorney General’s Office Files Motion to Dismiss
After a lawsuit was filed against the state of Iowa for failure to remove marijuana from Schedule I as a matter of law, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller responded this last week by filing a Motion to Dismiss the lawsuit. Read the Motion to Dismiss here. Bob Manke, one of the patients involved in this…
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DEA Denies Rescheduling Petition; Advocates Plan Appeal
NORML’s recent blog post further proves the DEA’s contempt for an honest dialogue about marijuana policy: no matter what the evidence says, MARIJUANA ISN’T MEDICINE! Insert obligatory “DEA GO AWAY” rant here. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I’m going to go ahead and skip repeating what NORML said about the denial…
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How to Win Medical Marijuana in Iowa, Part 1: Distractivism Issues
I’ve decided to run a series of articles outlining the steps needed to get medical marijuana passed in Iowa. When the country thinks of “Iowa,” they think of two things: corn, and caucuses. Well, unless they’re a football fan, and then there’s the Cyclones (kidding Hawk fans). Seeing as the political reality of Iowa reflects…
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WA: Republican Senator Cheryl Pflug “Not Aware” of Her State’s Sovereignty!
A recent blog article at the Seattle PI, Medical Marijuana, What’s Going On? highlights some issued surrounding Washington’s recent medical cannabis bill, Senate Bill 5955.. At a recent public hearing on the bill, Senator Cheryl Pflug appeared to be confused on the legal process to reclassify marijuana. She seems to think the Federal government has…
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4/20 Rally at Washington DC
There is a rally going on! If there’s ever an example of how much one activist can accomplish with an idea, then is it. I first became aware of this march back when the facebook page for Overgrow the Government. Here’s some information from The rally’s website. Welcome to the official Overgrow the Government website!…
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More information: Lynnice Wedewer, cannabis cancer patient
I’ve posted some of Lynnice’s recent media interviews on here before. Now, she has her own website! Check it out…lots of information. Lynnice plans on speaking at the 2011 Iowa Global Marijuana march. For more information, check the Facebook age for the event! As always, I’ll post about what happens on May 7th here on…
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SSDP’s Justin Kander: Man cures cancer with cannabis successfully
I met Justin in Washington DC in early February while attending CPAC 2011 to volunteer for Governor Gary Johnson. Justin has established himself as a respectable activist in Maryland. Here’s his guest column in the The Diamondback Online from the University of Maryland. Diamondbackonline.com article . The Diamondback > Opinion Guest column: Alternate treatment By…
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Weed’s the next big economic boom. Everyone selling weed is broke. What’s going on?
Two recent media articles have given me some food for thought. Let me know what you think. Something isn’t adding up… No money to be made? Tons of money to be made? Definitely does not add up. We’re broke as a country. How does this make you feel? Send comments to jkarimi2007@hotmail.com.
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Action needed by Friday!
The Senate Human Resources now has only until Friday, March 4 to act on the bill, before we have to wait until next January to try to move it again. Please, will you use this action link to write to all the members of the committee, and tell your story about how medical marijuana has…
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Carl’s Cannabis Corner, January 23, 2011
http://blip.tv/file/4673441 My guest is Jason Karimi, Author of WeedPress Blog .We will discuss efforts to find a sponsor for medical marijuana legislation in Iowa, as well as Jason’s role in co-founding Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana and the effort to establish a Board of Directors for the organization. We will also discuss: SSB 1016 –…
WeedPress: The Paper Trail 