My guests today are Roger Christie (first 30 minutes) and Robert Manke (second 20 minutes). Roger has an appeal pending on the religious freedom to use cannabis as a sacrament. Bob was a witness in the Iowa Board of Pharmacy hearings on medical cannabis in 2009.
My guests today are: Jake Porter, Libertarian candidate for Iowa Secretary of State; Quinn Symonds, activist in Mason City, IA; and Logan Edwards, Iraq War Veteran moving from Iowa to Colorado.
July 12, 2014: Read Jake Porter’s comments to WHO TV on the Benton Mackenzie case.
July 27, 2014: Read Logan Edward’s comments to the Associated Press on his exodus from Iowa.
August 9, 2014: Iowa NORML Women’s Alliance is having their 1st Annual Picnic.
Carl Olsen and Jason Karimi talk about administrative law.
Tomorrow a trial will begin in Scott County, Iowa. Iowa is going to torture and attempt to kill a cancer patient by the name of Benton Mackenzie, and throw his entire family, wife, child, parents, and close friend in prison for using medical cannabis. There was a great editorial about it in today’s newspaper, which you can read here: Iowa needs a broader medical cannabis law.