A proposed medical marijuana dispensary near Crossroads Center has received an official endorsement from city leaders. Waterloo City Council members voted 6-0 Monday to approve letter of support for the Des Moines-based Iowa Cannabis Co. to operate a cannabis product dispensary in a strip mall at 1955 La Porte Road. The Iowa Department of Public Health is expected to announce as early as Tuesday which five of the 21 applications it received for prospective cannabidiol dispensaries would be licensed to sell products made at a manufacturing facility in Des Moines.
Iowa legislators and Gov. Terry Branstad approved a bill in 2017 expanding access to cannabis oil for patients diagnosed with certain diseases and with terminal illnesses causing untreatable pain .