Carl Olsen

Appeal from pharmacy board’s refusal to consider religious exemption

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On August 15, 2018, my attor­ney filed an appeal from the phar­ma­cy board’s refusal to con­sid­er a reli­gious exemp­tion to the sched­ules of con­trolled sub­stances for the sacra­men­tal use of cannabis by mem­bers of the Rasta­fari faith.  Olsen v. Board of Phar­ma­cy, Iowa Dis­trict Court, Polk Coun­ty, No. CVCV056841. The exec­u­tive direc­tor uni­lat­er­al­ly denied the … Appeal from phar­ma­cy board’s refusal to con­sid­er reli­gious exemp­tion

Board of Pharmacy responds to Petition for Religious Exemption

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Iowa Board of Phar­ma­cy ANDREW FUNK, PHARM.D. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR July 16, 2018 Carl Olsen PO Box 41381 Des Moines, IA 50311 Sent via email only to: Carl Olsen and Col­in Mur­phy RE: Peti­tion for Sched­ul­ing Rec­om­men­da­tion Mr. Olsen, On July 5, 2018, you sub­mit­ted a Peti­tion for Sched­ul­ing Rec­om­men­da­tion to the Board, which asked the … Board of Phar­ma­cy responds to Peti­tion for Reli­gious Exemp­tion

Sacramental use of cannabis

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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 Coun­ty in Iowa, and my appeal was heard by the Iowa Supreme Court … Sacra­men­tal use of cannabis

Has Murphy v NCAA changed anything?

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Has the recent U.S. Supreme Court deci­sion in Mur­phy v. NCAA, 584 U.S. ___ (May 14, 2018), pro­hibit­ing Con­gress from forc­ing states to out­law sports gam­bling, actu­al­ly changed any­thing regard­ing legal­iza­tion of mar­i­jua­na in the States?  No, not real­ly, and here’s why. The deci­sion in Mur­phy does not change any­thing since Gon­za­les v. Raich, 545 … Has Mur­phy v NCAA changed any­thing?

Candidates for Governor 2018

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April 28, 2018 Dear Can­di­dates for Gov­er­nor of Iowa, In 2017, the Iowa leg­is­la­ture autho­rized large-scale mar­i­jua­na cul­ti­va­tion in our state for the pur­pose of mak­ing cannabid­i­ol prod­ucts, the Med­ical Cannabid­i­ol Act of 2017, H.F. 524 (Acts Chap­ter 162, 87th Gen­er­al Assem­bly, 1st Ses­sion). Cul­ti­va­tion of mar­i­jua­na is a fed­er­al crime.  The fed­er­al penal­ty for … Can­di­dates for Gov­er­nor 2018

Congressional Candidates 2018

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April 28, 2018 Dear Can­di­dates for the Third Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict of Iowa, Some can­di­dates, includ­ing David Young, are sup­port­ing state med­ical mar­i­jua­na pro­grams.  How­ev­er, despite the fact that 46 states now have such pro­grams, there still exists a lack of clar­i­ty on whether cur­rent­ly exist­ing fed­er­al law pro­hibits them. Fed­er­al­ism means that unless Con­gress pre­empts … Con­gres­sion­al Can­di­dates 2018

Requested Amendments to SF2397 (2018)

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Pro­posed Amend­ment to SF 2397 (a bill by the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Ways and Means)   AN AMENDMENT TO SF 2397   Sec­tion 124E.1, Code 2018, is amend­ed by adding the fol­low­ing new sub­sec­tion and renum­ber­ing the remain­ing sub­sec­tions: NEW SECTION.  124E.2  Leg­isla­tive pur­pose and intent. The pur­pose and intent of this chap­ter is all of the … Request­ed Amend­ments to SF2397 (2018)

Candidate Questionnaire 2018

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HAS IOWA TURNED TO CRIME? We’ve been hear­ing some star­tling com­ments on Iowa’s new cannabis oil law late­ly, 2017 Iowa Acts Chap­ter 162, HF 524.  Iowa’s new law autho­rizes “pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion” in Iowa of prod­ucts con­tain­ing “any cannabi­noid” found in mar­i­jua­na plants which con­tains no more than 3% tetrahy­dro­cannabi­nol.  Iowa Code § 124E.2(6) (2018).  … Can­di­date Ques­tion­naire 2018

House Concurrent Resolution 104 is a Bad Idea

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On Jan­u­ary 19, 2018, some Iowa leg­is­la­tors with good inten­tions filed House Con­cur­rent Res­o­lu­tion 104 (HCR104), ask­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to reclas­si­fy mar­i­jua­na. Although the inten­tion is good, HCR104 is bad. Iowa needs to clean up its own affairs before mak­ing a fuss about the mess the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment is per­pet­u­at­ing.  Before address­ing fed­er­al drug … House Con­cur­rent Res­o­lu­tion 104 is a Bad Idea