Dr Michael M Miller MD, FASAM
MADISON: With just over a week remaining for the State Legislature to take up AB554/SB368, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, Wisconsin activists continue to push for legislative action. But with two committee votes and two floor votes standing between them and legal medicine, activists are starting to fear the worst. Still, they remain steadfast in their desire to push forward and try to focus the wide base of support this issue has now garneed around the state.
Towards this end, activists plan to take on the Wisconsin Medical Society (SMS) head on in response to the organization's consistent position that current law is completely acceptable to them and that patients who use marijuana should continue to be targeted, arrested and jailed.
The face of the Society's compassion-free position has been Dr. Michael Miller. Dr. Miller made numerous misleading, incorrect and untrue statements during his Dec. 15 testimony for the combined Health Committee hearing on current legislation before the State Legislature AB554/SB368, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act.
On March 23, medical cannabis patients protesting at the SMS offices in Madison were confronted and harassed by SMS employees who attempted to provoke a confrontation.
SMS employee harassing protesters
It is unconscionable for a Medical Society to oppose a proven safe and effective medicine used by mankind for millennia. Their position against the JRMMA means they endorse the current law that criminalizes Wisconsin medical cannabis patients who need it today – Seniors, Veterans, the Sick, Disabled and the Dying!
From April 15-17, 2010, the SMS will be holding their Fundraiser (Foundation Fundraiser: "2010: A Medical Space Odyssey") and Annual Meeting at Monona Terrace Convention Center in Downtown Madison.
Monona Terrace Convention Center
Medical cannabis supporters say they will be present over all three days for a peaceful informational picket. That means Thursday night for the Society’s fundraiser from 5-10pm, and during the day Friday and Saturday. Here is the Facebook event page for the protest: 2010: A Medical Cannabis Odyssey: Patients protest WI Med Society.
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