Michigan Medical Cannabis Seminar brings familiar faces to Kalamazoo this July
MADISON: Several national activists who visited Wisconsin in support of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act during the 2009-2010 session campaign to pass it will be appearing at a Michigan Medical Cannabis Seminar this July.
Mieko Hester Perez , James Gierach, and Brandy Zink will be joining 420 University’s “Science and Compassionate Care Seminar” in July 10 and 11, 2010 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mieko Hester Perez “Marijuana Saved My Son’s Life” and James Gierach Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) both appeared at the Feb. 6 T.H.C. Expo in Berlin and lobbied at the State Capitol the day before. Brandy Zink joined other Michigan medical marijuana advocates in testimony at the Dec. 15, 2009 combined legislative hearing for the JRMMA that ran over 8 hours.
Other medical cannabis advocates speaking at the seminar include cannabis cultivation guru Ed Rosenthal, no stranger to Madison, Michigan medical cannabis attorney Matthew Abel, Illinois patient and activist Julie Falco, along with Claytonia activist Cheryl Shuman. Julie Falco was also a participant in the Cheryl Miller Memorial Project, held in Washington DC in September 2003.
