The four featured speakers for the event.
WAUKESHA, Wisc. -- The University of Wisconsin: Waukesha will be the location, and the campus Students for a Democratic Society chapter the host, of "A Grassroots Evening" on Monday February 22, a discuission of Wisconsin's Medical Marijuana legislation. The authors of AB554/SB368, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act (JRMMA), Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison) and Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee) will both be on hand to discuss their bill, as well as bill namesake and the Founder of Is My Medicine Legal YET? (IMMLY), Jacki Rickert and IMMLY and Wisconsin NORML's Gary Storck. The event will run in Room N133, and goes from 7-9pm. Doors will open at 6 and seating is limited to 200 people. The campus is located at 1500 N. University Drive in Waukesha. There will be informational tables and while this is a free event, donations will be accepted for the grassroots effort to pass the JRMMA.
Also included is a special performance of the song, “Legal Medicine Blues” by singer-songwriter Rick Harris. Harris recently performed the song live at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of the Mary Powers Memorial & Lobby Day on Jan. 20.
University of Wisconsin: Waukesha campus view.
A Grassroots Evening is part of a series of events organized by JRMMA supporters to increase public awareness and support of the bill. Daryl Heil, co-creator of the Facebook Group Wisconsin Residents for Assembly Bill 554 was instrumental in organizing this event. The popular group had nearly 17,500 members as of this writing.
Prior events include the T.H.C. "Talking Hemp and Cannabis" Expo in Berlin on Feb 6., a vigil at WI Gov. James Doyle's final State of the State Address on Jan. 26, a benefit at the High Noon Saloon on Jan. 24, and the aforementioned Memorial and Lobby Day on Jan. 20. JRMMA supporters are now in the process of planning a second Lobby Day, tentatively planned for Wed. Feb. 24 at the State Capitol.
Comments
It would have been nice to mention the Waukesha (SDS) Students for a Democratic Society is hosting this event. After all if it wasn't for Daryl and I this wouldn't be happening at all.
I agree and thank you both so much for bringing this to the table. Patients everywhere are appreciative of all of your efforts you are our heros!! Thank YOu!!
Kyle, Sorry for the oversight and big thanks to SDS and Daryl for helping!
@Madison Norml Examiner-
Thank you for the change! It is much appreciated! :)
@RxCannaGirl-
It is people like you that is the reason why I have decided to fight this struggle. Also my grandmother has fibermylga(sp?) and has been curious about cannabis but is afraid to try it because of the legality. She got addicted to oxycotin and since then refuses to take any opiates (don't blame her), not only that but the side effects are really bad for her. So unlike some people this is personal for me.
@Kyle
As the Madison NORML Examiner, I'm supposed to write in the third person, but as Gary Storck, I'm looking very much forward to not just the city of my birth, my alma mater (I attended UWW for several years in the mid-70's), but also as a medical cannabis patient activist. I first began to learn how to manage conditions I was born with, like glaucoma and heart problems, with cannabis in Waukesha. Decades later, with a bill in motion, I am really looking forward to coming back and educating folks about this medicine and what it has taken to get to this historic point in time.
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