Madison NORML presents the local version of the Global Cannabis March on Sat. May 1, 2010. Gather around 11:30 am-12 noon at the N. Hamilton St. corner of the State Capitol. We will rally there as the Farmer’s Market winds down and at around 1pm march down State St. and beyond to the Mifflin St. Block Party, where the march dissolves into the Block Party crowd.
MADISON: The latest fight for medical cannabis legislation in Wisconsin officially came to an end on April 22 with the release of “An Open Letter To Supporters Of Medical Marijuana” from State Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Madison) and Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee), announcing that AB554/SB368, the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act had run out of time in the current session. An article in the University of Wisconsin Badger Herald discussed the development.
While the failure of AB554/SB368 to pass is a setback, it is certainly not the end. State activists are already looking ahead not just to next session, but to laying the foundation for victory next session. The important thing they say is unity.
MADISON: Cannabis law reform supporters across Wisconsin will be joining their cannabis colleagues across the nation and world in celebrating April 20 or 4/20 with at least three events Tuesday.
According to Wikipedia, “The term originated from a group of teenagers at San Rafael High School in San Rafael, California, in 1971″. They would meet after school at 4:20 p.m. to smoke cannabis. In recent years it has blossomed into a major counterculture holiday, with more celebrations each year.
In Madison, according to a Facebook page titled, “4:20, 4/20″, there is a gathering set for Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 4:20pm – 4:40pm on Bascom Hill, on the University of Wisconsin: Madison campus, and a traditional location of cannabis events in Madison in the 60s and 70s and beyond.
4:20, 4/20
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Time: 4:20pm – 4:40pm
Location: Bascom Hill, Madison
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.
