DES MOINES – A cannabis oil bill passed out of Ways and Means Committee in the Iowa Senate yesterday and is being considered by the full Iowa Senate today.
Under the bill’s provisions (SF 2360), Iowans would be able to possess a specific type of medical marijuana, specifically cannabis oil for treating epilepsy. Currently, it is illegal to produce the oil in Iowa. The bill stipulates that a person would have to travel outside the state to obtain the cannabis oil, and to use the oil, a person would have to be diagnosed with intractable epilepsy.
Leading up to the debate on this bill, the Epilepsy Foundation issued a position statement supporting increased medical cannabis/marijuana access and research: “As parents and advocates, we feel an urgency to respond and take action on the use of cannabis/marijuana to treat epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation supports the rights of patients and families living with seizures and epilepsy to access physician directed care, including medical cannabis.”
Proponents of the bill called on citizens to “remind Republicans that they are not doctors and to listen to the Branstad administrations Iowa Board of Pharmacy recommendation to legalize medicinal cannabis” and pointed to the Republican party platform, which states: “We recognize the freedom of individuals to determine the level of health insurance they want, the level of health care they want, the providers they want, the medicines and treatments they will use, and all other aspects of their medical care. We demand the immediate elimination of any legislation that would impede an individual from making his or her own health-care decisions.”
During today’s debate in the Senate, Senator Steven Sodders, a deputy sheriff, said “This bill is narrow, other people could be helped, but it is a start.”
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What a load of bullarky. What in the hell do you call the stuff being served at Ransom’s, Sportsman’s, Carlos O’ Kelley’s, Applebees, Mason City Brewing, Kozy Korner, Sallees, Rookies etc?
INTOXICANTS is what I call them. Alcohol is poison, and gets you sick.
HYPOCRISY is one of the more loathsome aspects of this world, especially when the government engages in it.
Are you an alcoholic peter?
#maybe, in a region like North Iowa, you should start by counting who’s NOT an alcoholic, or drug user…that would be the smaller amount easier to tally. Forget about most of those at City Hall, pass over most of the ministers and priests in the area, probably a good portion of coaches and teachers, factory workers, doctors and nurses, police officers….you may not have too many left. I’m not sure kids in high school could be counted either.
ok ok ok, you got a point
You are a fool Peter. And as far as being a hypocrite goes – you are the worst of the worst. You’re so mixed up with your wacky ideas you’ve actually come to believe that you’re some sort of gifted, intellectual genius. NEWSFLASH: you’re an idiot!
In his defense, have you ever seen Rain man? He was a genius.
After all the points, observations and introductions to new ideas and concepts I’ve presented the readers of NIT, do you really expect anyone to believe that I’m an idiot? You don’t even believe what you wrote, as much as you’d prefer it to be that way. I have a discontent, and I have a willingness to engage in new adventures. These are my crimes? I stand guilty as charge, I guess.
@ Philosophus:
Yes I do believe you are an idiot. How many of these new ideas have taken hold? None. How did the election go – you lost. How is the biotecture cult going – it isn’t because you upset everyone in that feeble minded group. How did it go leaving town – it didn’t because your car broke down. How did it go staying off NIT – it failed as you were back on within 24 hours. How successful has your job search been – guess you’re still unemployed. Yes, you are an idiot.
I’d like to ask all of you to clean this kind of behavior up. Next I will start deleting comments. I’ll leave these up since they are mildly entertaining. Otherwise, the next ones will be gone if they are off-topic or calling each other names. Thanks.
@Philly-You didn’t answer the mans question. Are you a alcoholic?
NO! People should NOT have things that may cure cancer!
Drugs are drugs…just die and take your cancer like a man.
@Bro-It doesn’t cure cancer and you know it you. It does relieve pain for some people and based on that it should be approved if it will help.
Doctor LVS is in the house folks it must be true!
You are so stupid LVS. Marijuana helps with pain among many other things. Hemp oil is used for curing cancer and why this bill is moving forward. Google Rick Simpsons oil and learn. You’re just some retired blue collar worker who is uneducated to say the least. You don’t know anything about anything.
@Bro=once again you are a idiot. It also causes heart attacks and makes you brain dead. You are a good example of that.
The world according to Garp.
You are just a retired blue collar worker that doesn’t have any formal education at all. A “shut in” that sits on the computer all day at one site.
@Bro-this may be more than your drug induced mentality can comprehend but a Manufacturing Engineer is NOT a uneducated, blue collar worker. Although there is not wrong with being a blue collar worker at all. That is something a welfare baby, worthless slug like you would never understand. I am able to sit at home because I am retired and am able to have a living without having to suck welfare like you do.
Hemp oil is not capable of curing cancer, Peter.
The very last link I posted tells the good that pot can do. Sure it doesn’t cure cancer but in some forms it will help with pain or seizers.
I’ve seen reports from yale, Harvard, and at least 2 other universities not to mention a report from the French government that talks about how bad pot is for you mentally, and you peter still going on about how it cures cancer. Sure it cures cancer, it kills you eventually. I know that you will say cigarettes and alcohol will kill you eventually too but the difference is they are legal right now.
“yale, Harvard, and at least 2 other universities not to mention a report from the French government that talks about how bad pot is for you mentally,”
OK, can you post the links to these so called studies? Or are you just a ex-factory worker who likes to tell lies?
Lucy, I don’t know where your hatred for me comes from. I don’t tell lies. I report what I read and sure I may not always remember where I read it, that doesn’t make me a liar. Instead of calling me a liar, prove that I am lying.
http://narcononreviews.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/narconon-reviews-the-effects-of-marijuana-on-the-brain/
http://www.cadca.org/resources/detail/harvard-university-reports-understanding-risks-brain-marijuana
http://www.sciencedaily…
@maybe-Don’t worry about what the liberal druggers say. They are to stoned to read it anyway. I believe you.
http://www.addictioninfo.org/news/marijuana/research-explains-how-marijuana-effects-brain
http://www.brainfacts.org/About-Neuroscience/Ask-an-Expert/Articles/2013/How-does-marijuana-affect-brain-function
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-heart-attack-stroke-marijuana-20140423,0,3208786.story
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405174833.htm
This last ones shows the good of it.
http://www.drugs.com/marijuana.html
All lies! I don’t see 4 reports form 4 universities including Yale and Harvard. I see on letter from 2010 Harvard Review that says poet may be bad for schizophrenics.
For every report you read about the negative aspects of pot there are 40 regarding the positive aspects. I could post hundreds of studies and you’d disregard every one of them for what you want to hear.
The debate is over on this issue. We know pot is not the dangerous substance government made it out to be. The debate is…
and you are evidence of that
This is not a cure for cancer.
Hopefully the Iowa Senate will do something important this year and get this bill passed.