Programme status
Medical only — the Medical Cannabidiol Programme under Iowa Code ch. 124E. Dispensary sales live since December 2018, through a small fixed network with two licensed manufacturers.
What is not published
- One annual report to the General Assembly, covering a trailing twelve months, published each January.
- A fourteen-month effective lag by the time a reader sees the latest month.
- The open-data portal screen was inconclusive: it migrated off Socrata and no positive control succeeded, so a machine-readable dataset could still exist behind the SPA.
Why there is no page here
An annual figure fourteen months in arrears cannot join a monthly comparison, and the alternative may or may not exist. Listing Iowa with what IS known is more honest than a page with one number on it.
What would change this
A hand-search of the Iowa Data Hub UI. A hit would move Iowa from a stub to a full page in one step.
Why this page exists at all
Every US cannabis jurisdiction gets an entry on this site, including the ones with nothing to chart. A jurisdiction that is simply missing looks like an oversight; a jurisdiction whose absence is stated, sourced and dated is a finding. This site is a record of what governments publish, and that record has to include what they do not.
Nothing on this page is an estimate. Where a figure exists in press coverage, a law-firm summary or budget testimony but not in a published government artifact, it is named as unusable rather than repeated.