MADISON: Is My Medicine Legal YET? Founder Jacki Rickert, the namesake of Wisconsin medical cannabis legislation, urged supporters to not give up hope and to keep pushing until their medicine is legal at a “Vigil for Victims of Medical Marijuana Prohibition” Monday on Capitol Square. She also promised supporters she would be back for next year’s vigil on June 7, 2011, and reminisced about her late friends Cheryl Miller, Mary Powers and Joe Hart, all medical cannabis activists.

Rickert was among several speakers at the vigil at the King St. corner of the State Capitol Square in downtown Madison.

I was another, explaining to attendees, onlookers and passersby about why medical cannabis patients and advocates were gathering downtown on a Monday evening with signs and a memorial table. I also talked about the loss of Mary Powers, the Army veteran and Wisconsin medical cannabis leader taken by cancer in October 2009. I noted how a year earlier, Mary had told vigil attendees that she “knew what her demise would be.”
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