Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) in Jones County, Iowa: The Complete Guide by OilWell Cannabis

If you’re reading this in Monticello, or anywhere across the rolling farmland of Jones County, you’re probably looking for answers that your local doctors haven’t been able to give you. Maybe it’s the chronic back pain from decades of working the fields near the Maquoketa River. Maybe it’s the anxiety that keeps you up at night in Anamosa, or the cancer diagnosis that sent you driving two hours to Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids because Jones Regional Medical Center doesn’t have an oncology unit. Maybe you’re a veteran near Oxford Junction who came home with invisible wounds that the VA clinic in Cedar Rapids can’t quite seem to heal.

Wherever you are in Jones County — whether you’re tending cattle outside Wyoming or running a small business on Main Street in Olin — you’ve heard whispers about Rick Simpson Oil. Maybe from a neighbor at the Jones County Fairgrounds. Maybe in a Facebook group for cancer caregivers. Maybe you’re the one doing the whispering, desperate for something that actually works when the pills stop helping.

We get it. We’re OilWell Cannabis, and we built our RSO formulas for people exactly like you. Not in a corporate boardroom, but in the trenches of real suffering, real desperation, and real hope.

Who is Rick Simpson, and Why Does His Story Matter in Jones County?

Rick Simpson wasn’t a doctor. He was a power plant engineer in Nova Scotia who got hurt on the job in 1997 — a head injury from falling scaffolding that left him with ringing ears, constant dizziness, and pain that prescription drugs made worse. When he asked his doctor about cannabis, the doctor refused. So Simpson figured it out himself. Sound familiar? It should. We’ve heard the same story from construction workers in Onslow, from farmers near Martelle, from nurses who’ve watched patients suffer because the medical system ran out of answers.

In 2003, Simpson claimed three bumps on his arm that his doctor called basal cell carcinoma disappeared after he applied cannabis oil. He had no biopsy proof. No independent verification. But that personal experience — that desperate experiment when conventional medicine failed — became the origin story of Rick Simpson Oil. And that story spread, all the way to rural Iowa, because people everywhere recognize the pattern: when the system fails you, you start looking for your own solutions.

The 60-Gram Protocol That Reached Jones County

Simpson’s protocol was simple but brutal: consume 60 grams of thick, black cannabis oil over 90 days. Start with a dose half the size of a grain of rice. Double it every four days until you’re taking a full gram daily. That’s 600-900 milligrams of THC per day — doses that dwarf anything studied in legitimate clinical trials.

Here in Jones County, where the nearest oncologist might be a 90-mile drive through cornfields, that protocol sounds both terrifying and tempting. We know patients who’ve driven to Davenport for chemo, who’ve maxed out their insurance, who’ve been told to “get their affairs in order.” When you’re that desperate, the idea of taking control with a plant-based medicine feels empowering.

But here’s what most RSO websites won’t tell you: Simpson’s protocol has never been validated in a controlled trial. The National Cancer Institute explicitly states that no cannabis product has been proven to cure cancer in humans . The FDA hasn’t approved cannabis for cancer treatment. Health Canada never endorsed RSO. Simpson himself had no medical training, no clinical trials, no peer-reviewed publications .

That doesn’t mean his story is worthless. It means we need to be honest about what we know and what we don’t. In Jones County, where trust is earned and BS is smelled from a mile away, that honesty matters more than any sales pitch.

What Traditional RSO Actually Was (And Why It Was a Problem)

Traditional Rick Simpson Oil wasn’t a standardized medicine. It was a crude extract made with naphtha or isopropyl alcohol in a rice cooker — solvents that can leave behind benzene and other carcinogens if not purged perfectly. Every batch was different because every plant was different. The oil was black as tar, tasted like chemicals, and had no lab testing. No one knew exactly how much THC, CBD, or anything else was in it. For a farmer in Jones County used to measuring fertilizer to the ounce, that kind of guesswork is unacceptable.

But the biggest problem? It was always fully psychoactive. The heat from solvent evaporation converted all THCa into delta-9 THC. If you needed to dose during the day to function — to operate machinery, drive into Cedar Rapids for supplies, or work a shift at the grain elevator — you were out of luck. Either you got high, or you didn’t dose.

OilWell’s RSO is different. Deliberately. We built it for people in places like Jones County who need precision, safety, and control.

The OilWell Story: From a Paralyzed Dog to a Mission That Reaches Jones County

Our founder Colin Valencia didn’t start in a lab. He started in McAllen, Texas, one of the most violent border regions in America, where he learned about cannabis not from textbooks but from survival. He lost friends to prison and cartel violence. He left home at sixteen. He could have gone darker, but he chose cannabis because he believed it could help people without destroying them.

Then came Bentley. Colin’s dog was paralyzed, facing euthanasia. The vet said pain meds would destroy Bentley’s organs. So Colin did what any farmer in Jones County would do — he figured it out himself. He learned about CBD, created a golden paste, and watched Bentley get up and bring him his ball. Dogs don’t respond to placebo. That moment changed everything.

Bentley lived ten more years. During that decade, Colin developed formulas for every age-related condition: CBG for neuroprotection, THCa for inflammation, CBC for neurogenesis, beta-caryophyllene for CB2 activation. When Colin himself struggled with PTSD and Xanax addiction, he used those same principles to quit benzodiazepines cold turkey — a feat most doctors call impossible. He personally uses our Peace Gummies formula (born from those midnight withdrawal experiments) to manage his severe PTSD to this day.

That’s why doctors use our formulas for Crohn’s, IBS, ulcerative colitis, benzo withdrawal, and insomnia. It’s why we’ve been featured on ABC13 Houston seven times across four years, with five different