Bill Text: IA SF282 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act reclassifying marijuana, including tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-19 - Subcommittee, Bolkcom, Dotzler, and Johnson. S.J. 335. [SF282 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF282-Introduced.html

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Senate File 282 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  BOLKCOM

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act reclassifying marijuana, including
  2    tetrahydrocannabinols, from a schedule I controlled
  3    substance to a schedule II controlled substance.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 124.204, subsection 4, paragraphs m and
  1  2 u, Code 2015, are amended by striking the paragraphs.
  1  3    Sec. 2.  Section 124.204, subsection 7, Code 2015, is amended
  1  4 by striking the subsection.
  1  5    Sec. 3.  Section 124.206, subsection 7, Code 2015, is amended
  1  6 to read as follows:
  1  7    7.  Hallucinogenic substances.  Unless specifically excepted
  1  8 or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound,
  1  9 mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the
  1 10 following substances, or, for purposes of paragraphs "a" and
  1 11 "b", which contains any of its salts, isomers, or salts of
  1 12 isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, or salts
  1 13 of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation
  1 14 (for purposes of this paragraph only, the term "isomer" includes
  1 15 the optical, positional, and geometric isomers):
  1 16    a.  Marijuana when used for medicinal purposes pursuant to
  1 17 rules of the board.
  1 18    b.  Tetrahydrocannabinols, meaning tetrahydrocannabinols
  1 19 naturally contained in a plant of the genus Cannabis (Cannabis
  1 20 plant) as well as synthetic equivalents of the substances
  1 21 contained in the Cannabis plant, or in the resinous extractives
  1 22 of such plant, and synthetic substances, derivatives, and their
  1 23 isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological
  1 24 activity to those substances contained in the plant, such as
  1 25 the following:
  1 26    (1)  1 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical
  1 27 isomers.
  1 28    (2)  6 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their optical
  1 29 isomers.
  1 30    (3)  3,4 cis or trans tetrahydrocannabinol, and their
  1 31 optical isomers. (Since nomenclature of these substances
  1 32 is not internationally standardized, compounds of these
  1 33 structures, regardless of numerical designation of atomic
  1 34 positions covered.)
  1 35    b.  c.  Nabilone [another name for
  2  1 nabilone: (+=) =
  2  2 trans=3=(1,1=dimethylheptyl)=6,6a,7,8,10,10a=hexahydro=1=
  2  3 hydroxy=6,6=dimethyl=9H=dibenzo[b,d]pyran=9=one].
  2  4                           EXPLANATION
  2  5 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  2  6 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2  7    This bill reclassifies marijuana, including
  2  8 tetrahydrocannibinols as a schedule II controlled substance
  2  9 instead of a schedule I controlled substance and strikes
  2 10 references to the authority of the board of pharmacy to adopt
  2 11 rules for the use of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinols for
  2 12 medicinal purposes.
  2 13    A schedule I controlled substance is a highly addictive
  2 14 substance that has no accepted medical use in the United States
  2 15 and a schedule II controlled substance is a highly addictive
  2 16 substance that has an accepted medical use in the United
  2 17 States.  The reclassification of marijuana from a schedule I
  2 18 controlled substance to a schedule II controlled substance
  2 19 would allow a physician to issue a prescription for marijuana
  2 20 under state law. However, federal regulations may prohibit
  2 21 such prescriptions.
  2 22    The penalties remain unchanged for violations involving
  2 23 marijuana under the bill. The penalties under Code section
  2 24 124.401 range from a class "B" felony punishable by up to 50
  2 25 years of confinement to a serious misdemeanor punishable by
  2 26 up to six months of confinement depending on the amount of
  2 27 marijuana involved in the offense.
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