Branstad’s board ignores sick Iowans
I recently blogged about this BOP’s decision…
And they had the hearing because ?
From the article:
Gov Branstad appointees dominating the Iowa Pharmacy Board declined to reclassify marijuana in a way that could lead to some medical uses. The board voted unanimously for the reclassification in 2010 before Branstad put his appointees on the board.
Filling boards is a governor’s prerogative. So naturally, this board reflects his preferences. On Wednesday, the board clearly expressed Branstad’s preference that families of sick Iowans move to another state.
So the BOP had previously UNANIMOUSLY approved the reclassification of MJ for medical use.. and the apparently the Governor of the state changed and this new Governor stacked the BOP to reverse the previous BOP’s decision… and they are referring to the BOP as reflecting his PREFERENCES..
IMO… this Governor’s predecessor and the BOP that he appointed was much more open minded… and IMO.. this Governor’s “preferences” is more a reflections of his biases and phobias.. Since we are approaching nearly half of the states have approved the use of medical MJ… and the DEA has backed off enforcing the Federal law about the use of MJ in these states… how else could you explain this change in direction by IOWA and it’s BOP…
It doesn’t matter which side of the medical use of MJ you come down on… the trend in this country is toward the approval at the state level to approve some sort of medical use.. It would appear in IOWA… that they started down this path to approve it .. and basically ONE PERSON’S preference/biases/phobias.. made the state do a 180 degree change. Is this the way our system is suppose to work ?
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