Advocates for Legal Medical Marijuana Likely to Make Push in 2014 Iowa Legislature

A mother, an Iraq War veteran and the former director of New Mexico’s medical marijuana program made the case for changes in state law to allow Iowans with a variety of medical conditions to seek relief through medical marijuana. The public information meeting in Iowa City Tuesday night, which attracted about 100 people, wasn’t about legalizing marijuana, the war on drugs or sentencing reform, Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, who co-sponsored the meeting with the ACLU-Iowa, said. It was, he [...]

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