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Doctors, Patients to Testify at Pharmacy Board Medical Marijuana Hearing Wednesday
MEDIA ADVISORYÂ Â Â
AUGUST 18, 2009
Doctors, Patients to Testify at Pharmacy Board Medical Marijuana Hearing Wednesday
CONTACT: Bruce Mirken, MPP director of communications ............... 415-585-6404 or 202-215-4205
DES MOINES, IOWA -- Medical experts from Iowa and around the country as well as patients and others will testify Wednesday at the first of a series of Iowa Board of Pharmacy hearings to examine the medical value of marijuana and whether marijuana's classification under state law should be changed.
   WHAT: Iowa Board of Pharmacy hearing on medical marijuana
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   WHO: Witnesses expected to testify include:
      Dr. Joseph McSherry, neurologist at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington, Vt., who has testified before Vermont's legislature and has extensive experience with Vermont's medical marijuana law. Scheduled to speak at 10:30 a.m.
       Dr. Ed Hertko, retired internal medicine specialist from West Des Moines and founder of Camp Hertko Hollow, a residential camp for youth with diabetes. Scheduled to speak at 11:10 a.m.
      Dr. Alan Koslow, vascular surgeon from West Des Moines and founding member of the Iowa Pain Institute, who served on the Governor's Task Force for Early Childhood Care and on the board of the American Diabetes Association. Scheduled to speak at 2:10 p.m.
     Jeff Elton of Des Moines, who suffers from gastric paresis, causing severe nausea and vomiting.
   WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
   WHERE: Iowa State Historic Building (auditorium), 600 East Locust St., Des Moines.
   To arrange interviews with the above witnesses or with Marijuana Policy Project staffers who can place Wednesday's hearing in a national context, contact MPP director of communications Bruce Mirken at 415-585-6404 or 202-215-4205.
    With more than 27,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit http://MarijuanaPolicy.org.
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Confused Cop Worries That Medical Marijuana Could be Laced With PCP
State police Lt. Col. Steven G. OâDonnell said there is nothing prohibiting caregivers from lacing their marijuana with phencyclidine (PCP) or other powerful drugs. [Providence Journal]
No, no, no, you misunderstand, sir. It's medical marijuana that's legal in Rhode Island, not PCP. Got it? Medical m-a-r-i-j-u-a-n-a. You can still arrest people for PCP. I doubt this will be an issue though, because for some reason, medical marijuana laws don't seem to result in increased use of PCP. It's awesome.
But O'Donnell still doesn't get it. There's something bothering him about marijuana policy, but he can't quite figure out what it is:
"Itâs very unregulated," he said. "It makes no sense to us. We regulate hamburger and food, but we do not regulate medical marijuana. There are no checks and balances."
Here, lets try that line again, but this time without the word "medical." I think we're onto something here. If we could all just agree that marijuana â medical and otherwise â needs to be monitored for quality and sold by licensed professionals, maybe we can finally put this whole mess behind us.
Drug Czar Admits He Was Wrong About Medical Marijuana
Well, it looks like someone in the administration had a little talk with the drug czar, because he's already backtracking:
Asked if he regretted what he said, Kerlikowske said, "Sometimes you make a mistake and you work very hard to correct it. That happens. I should've clearly said 'smoked' marijuana and then gone on to say that this is clearly a question that should be answered by the medical community." [KOMO News]
Of course, this is still utter nonsense given the abundance of scientific evidence that medical marijuana works. But it's remarkable to hear the drug czar acknowledge making "a mistake." As false and obnoxious as his corrected statement may be, it's nice to know that the word "mistake" is in his vocabulary.
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