MADISON: The eight hour combined committee hearing on Wisconsin's AB554/SB368, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act (JRMMA) produced some amazing testimony from patients and supporters, as well as some ugly scenes by opponents.
The first patients heard from by committee members were two veteran Wisconsin medical cannabis patient activists, Jacki Rickert and Gary Storck. Rickert and Storck testified alongside JRMMA sponsors Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee) and Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison). The two first met at the State Capitol in September 1997, at the conclusion of Rickert's 210-mile wheelchair Journey for Justice. Not long after, they joined forces under Jacki's Is My Medicine Legal YET? banner. In the years since they have become well known for their decades of efforts trying to get medical cannabis legislation passed in the Badger State..
Below is the testimony of Jacki and Gary from the Dec. 15 hearing:
For more info: List of qualifying medical conditions included in the JRMMA. Jacki Rickert MMJ Act Hearing Recap & Action Alert. For additional details on the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, info on the Dec. 15 combined Health committee hearing, bill text and status, all the latest news and how you can help, visit JRMMA.org, IMMLY.org or MadisonNORML.org. Visit my Madison NORML Examiner articles archive. Photos courtesy IMMLY/WI NORML except where otherwise noted.
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Come on Wisconsin the rest of the world is beginning to see through the F.O.G. of the Prohibition Machine and please let's trade in the old oppression for compassion !! Call your Assembly & Senator today and express your view ...
to make it illegal to begin with was completly unconstitoutianal
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