Iowa’s Board of Pharmacy Votes to Recommend Medical Marijuana
Great news from the great state of Iowa: Today the state’s Board of Pharmacy voted 6-0 to recommend to lawmakers that the state reclassify marijuana as a Schedule II drug and create a task force to study the possible implementation of medical marijuana in the state.
This recommendation puts Iowa one step closer to enacting a medical marijuana law, as its own officials have now definitively recognized marijuana as a medicine. The Iowa House and Senate are each considering bills that would protect from arrest chronically ill patients who use marijuana to alleviate their conditions, but the bills missed deadlines that would have allowed them to be enacted this year. Fortunately, this recommendation from the Board of Pharmacy will put increased pressure on lawmakers to pass a law in the next session.
A Des Moines Register poll released yesterday found that 64% of Iowans support patients’ use of medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation.
Keep checking MPP’s blog and our Iowa state page for the latest developments.
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Im so shocked ! I had no idea the pols were so high for that here. Im also shovked they voted 6-0 in favor of rescheduling from I to schedule II. Oh but you just wait , Im sure the law enforcement will be crawling the walls. Something has to give in this country , we cant be free and be so controlled . They can coiecide. I just wish there was a such thing as MMJ when my father was suffering from cancer.
On another note…I noticed only 19% 55 and older supproted rec use. That is a huge margin due to baby boomers. the thing is they are polling to have there kids and grandkids lives ruined due to arrest. Do they even realize that their kids and grand kids use cannabis? I think not. If they really knew, that poll would change. LOL gee grandma .. do you really want to put me in jail or prison and deny me schooling, housing , jobs, ect?
I get tired of bills missing the deadline for this year or that year. We need a system where the issues can be voted on within a decent timeframe. Two to three months is all it should take. Not waiting until November or whatever the fuck. It;s all so possible now that we are in the electronic computer age. When will we catch up with our technology.
let me tell you, as one in the room today, it was very nerve racking………thanks MPP for all you do…..the truth wins again……..PRAISE JAH…….
=) One step closer! Thanks Mike and crew!
In 1979 The Iowa Legislature passed a bill that re-scheduled Cannabis to schedule II and appropriated funds for the study of medicinal cannabis. The study was never done and the chapter that re-scheduled cannabis was rescinded in its entirety 1987. It is a great day for Iowa cannabis patients. It is a great day for America as a state medical governing board has recommended re-scheduling of cannabis recognizing it’s “accepted medical use”. I want to thank to Carl and his suite against the pharmacy board to recognize “accepted medical use in the United States”and all those brave souls that told their stories around the state at the Pharmacy hearings.
Yes! Iowa has gone back to 1979! But with technology and facts from 2010!!! Much harder to suppress truth without Russians and no internet.
Why are we willing to ASK for permission from our EMPLOYEES?
Fuck them, I hereby grant myself permission and rescind whatever authority they thought they had over me. This is me. I OWN me. and Fuck them if they don’t like what I choose to put inside of ME.
I don’t ASK my employees, I TELL THEM
JW, they see us as thier slaves not employers , until we change the shift in power that has happened in this country, thats how they will treat us. Let us vote and make us think we have freedom.
thanks mpp!
INTERESTING 6-0 VOTE!!!
Remember this from the Board of Pharmacy June 5, 2008:
The board was unanimous. Board Member Margaret Whitworth complained of “a lack of science and any up-to-date more recent information.”
“I have a very difficult time saying that there was any type of scientific evidence-based type of evidence given to us that day. The fact that the other states have done this does not mean that Iowa has to follow suit. We need to have a lot of evidence,” said board member Ed Maier.
“I would agree with that,” said board member DeeAnn Wedemeyer-Oleson, who then launched into a story about how she had told her father when she was in high school that everybody else was allowed to stay out late at night so she should have the privilege, too.
“And he said, ‘Well, if all your friends jumped off the bridge, does that mean you should jump off the bridge?’ So, to me this whole other 12, what is now 13 states, allowing medical marijuana use is not at all sufficient to allow the Board of Pharmacy to make a decision,” she determined.
“I’d have to agree,” said Ann Diehl, a board member. “I don’t have anything else to add but I didn’t see any, what I would call, scientific based evidence.”
Board member Susan Frey went as far as to blame the board’s own counsel for not properly explaining to the court why they had rejected reclassifying pot in the first place.
“When controlled substances are classified, it’s classified on the eight criteria that Scott [Galenbeck] presented in our legal brief to the court. And I think that that was not addressed appropriately to the court and not all of those counts were presented and also certainly not here at our hearing. So I would say that, again, I would back the comments that we need science-based evidence, that there are acceptable uses and that those uses are within the realm of safety for the public,” she analyzed.
She moved to reject the request and the motion carried without objection.
This is what happens when people are actually court order to impartially review the current status of marijuana. They are then forced to actually look at the science behing the plant. When this issue was first discussed it received unanimous opposition… but now after actually researching the plant they all have turned to supporting the reclasification! AMAZING!!!
Thursday, Branstad told NewsChannel Four he thinks the Legislature needs to be very careful in their handling of this issue.
He says, there are other prescription drugs that can be used to treat diseases.
“There’s a lot of problems with illegal drugs and my concern is if you start down a slippery slope of legalizing it for some purposes then it gets used for other illicit purposes,” said Branstad.
I guess the wanna’ be gov. does not support medical marijuana. He probably has ignored the facts and not seen the report released by the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego, which the results of five state-funded scientific clinical trials prove medicinal value in marijuana. Guess you cant teach an old dog new tricks.
If Branstad does not show support for medical marijuana we should rally agents him to see that he never enters the Gov. office again. Going agents the majority on an important subject in Iowa is not a wise move Mr. Branstad…
MPP I have ran across one article on this subject but haven’t been able to re-find it stated that the Pharm. Board in Iowa has the legal power to set drug laws in Iowa. But the Board was going to let the legislature decide as they would have to approve anything they did anyway.
I think this needs to be researched and documented and then made public so the people in Iowa have their voice heard and not squelched with postponing this issue any further.
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