2010: A Medical Cannabis Odyssey: Patients protest WI Med Society by Land and by “Sea”
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.
