Iowa officials are spinning their wheels in the effort to get an exemption from federal marijuana prohibition. So far, all it has amounted to is a few letters exchanged between state and federal bureaucrats.
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Iowa officials are spinning their wheels in the effort to get an exemption from federal marijuana prohibition. So far, all it has amounted to is a few letters exchanged between state and federal bureaucrats.
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