Minnesota Board of Pharmacy rejects petition to remove cannabis from Schedule I
Channel: hannabis316
Date: 2011-11-11

Kurt Hanna asked the Board of Pharmacy to use their statutory authority to remove cannabis from Schedule I on the Minnesota version of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act on March 16, 2011. A copy of the petition and its accompanying memorandum of law can be found here: http://www.mnnorml.org/mnnorml/legalization/rescheduling-petition-3/16/11 http://www.mnnorml.org/mnnorml/legalization/rescheduling-memorandum-3/16/11

They responded a day after they were legally required to respond by, on May 16th. They denying my petition saying that it was too controversial. Their response can be found here: http://mncannabiscohort.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Scanned-signed-copy-of-Hanna-Engelmann-letter1.pdf

On May 12th, a nonsense amendment was made to HF57 in the senate so as to create the need for a conference committee to unify the House and the Senate bills.

The Board then worked with the state legislature, specifically Representative Bob Barrett, to sneak a provision in during a conference committee on HF57 that removes the Board's ability to remove ANY substance from Schedule I of the state CSA. The bill summary before the amendment can be found here: http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/departments/scr/billsumm/summary_display_from_db.php?ls=87&id=245 and the summary from after it can be found here: http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/departments/scr/billsumm/summary_display_from_db.php?ls=87&id=494

As you can see, section 5 was added on May 17th, a day after I received the response from the Board of Pharmacy. This amendment prevented me from appealing the Board of Pharmacy's decision to an administrative law judge because my appeal would have been determined to be moot.

A video of the debate on the House floor on both the amendment proposed by the Conference Committee and the bill itself can be found at minute 26 at this link:
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/htv/programa.asp?ls_year=87&event_id=3759

Go to mnNORML.org to stay up to date with this ongoing struggle.

I'm very sorry that the video does not catch the end of the meeting. The battery on the recording device died.