Senate Joint Resolution 10
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1 1 A Joint Resolution supporting the use of marijuana for medical
1 2 purposes in the state of Iowa.
1 3 WHEREAS, significant scientific and medical studies have
1 4 demonstrated that marijuana is safe for use under medical
1 5 supervision and that the cannabis plant, in its natural form, has
1 6 important therapeutic benefits that are often of critical medical
1 7 importance to persons afflicted with a variety of life-
1 8 threatening and sense-threatening illnesses; and
1 9 WHEREAS, courts have recognized marijuana's medical value in
1 10 treatment and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of
1 11 "necessity" in the treatment of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and
1 12 multiple sclerosis; and
1 13 WHEREAS, the people of the state of Iowa believe that well-
1 l4 trained medical professionals rather than remote federal
1 15 bureaucrats should be responsible for determining a patient's
1 16 medical care routine; and
1 17 WHEREAS, seriously ill Iowans and other Americans are
1 18 unnecessarily suffering because of federal policies which legally
1 19 prohibit marijuana's legitimate medical use; and
1 20 WHEREAS, Iowa Code section 124.206, subsection 7, paragraph
1 21 "a", enacted in 1979, allows the use of marijuana for medical
1 22 purposes in the state of Iowa, expressing the intent of the Iowa
1 23 General Assembly that marijuana should be available for
1 24 legitimate medical purposes; and
2 1 WHEREAS, these problems are not particular to the state of
2 2 Iowa, but generally affect the citizens of all states adversely;
2 3 NOW THEREFORE,
2 4 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
3 1 That the Iowa General Assembly memorializes the President
3 2 and the United States Congress to end federal prohibitions
3 3 against marijuana's legitimate medical use by creating a
3 4 rational system of prescriptive medical access to marijuana;
3 5 and
3 6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be
3 7 transmitted to the Honorable Bill Clinton, President of the
3 8 United States; the Honorable Albert Gore, Vice President of
3 9 the United States and President of the United States Senate;
3 10 the Honorable Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the United States
3 11 House of Representatives; the Honorable Robert Dole, Majority
3 12 Leader of the United States Senate; Donna Shalala, Secretary
3 13 of the United States Department of Health and Human Services;
3 14 Janet Reno, United States Attorney General; and the members of
3 15 Iowa's congressional delegation.
3 16 EXPLANATION
3 17 This resolution recites the Iowa general assembly's support
3 18 for the removal of federal prohibitions relating to the
3 19 legalization of marijuana for certain medical purposes in the
3 20 state of Iowa.
3 21 LSB 1859SS 76
3 22 cl/sc/14