Saying Hello to Iowans for Medical Marijuana

Carl Olsen, who has been working very hard to go through legal channels to change the status quo around marijuana, has just set up the blog Iowans for Medical Marijuana. Although there's just one post on the blog at the moment, I expect that it will quickly grow because Olsen has a number of irons in the fire on this front.

(Above: Olsen and Jim Cook outside the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in April. Photo from the website of Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church.)

I sometimes disagree with aspects of Olsen's legal interpretations, and more frequently I just don't have time to keep up with everything he's doing, but the main thing is that he's somebody who is really working his butt off to challenge a legal structure that he believes is flawed. I wish more people would follow his example. Let's hear it for Midwestern Scandanavian rabble rousers!