Lindesmith-DPF e-Newsletter: Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Medical Marijuana Bill
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eNewsletter: Thursday, December 13, 2001
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CONTENTS:
1. National News
A. Washington State Coalition Offers
Alternative to Drug War
B. FBI Likely to Reduce Drug War Role; DEA
Capitalizes on America's Tragedy
C. Wisconsin Legislators Introduce Medical
Marijuana Bill
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* WISCONSIN LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE MEDICAL
MARIJUANA BILL *
Reps. Frank Boyle, D-Superior, and Mark Pocan,
D-Madison introduced a medical marijuana bill
this week that would allow people to grow or buy
marijuana if provided a written recommendation
from a doctor. The bill would authorize nonprofit
organizations to produce and distribute medical
marijuana if licensed by the Wisconsin Department
of Health and Human Services. Libertarian
gubernatorial candidate Ed Thompson, brother of
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy
Thompson, praised the proposed legislation.
"Nobody's ever died from the use of marijuana,"
he said. "It's not harmful but helpful." The bill
is being met with predictable misinformation from
reactionary culture warriors who confuse the
benefits that cancer and AIDS patients derive from
medical marijuana with 60's counterculture. The
findings of the U.S. government commissioned
Institute of Medicine report are once again being
ignored amidst repeat calls for further research
on a plant that has been used medicinally for
thousands of years. Wisconsin activist Gary Storck
of "Is My Medicine Legal Yet" has been using
marijuana to treat glaucoma for 30 years. "This
is the only thing that allows me to function
normally," he said. "People are very caught up
in the image of the dope-smoking hippie, but it
goes beyond that. It does have medical benefits."
Website of Is My Medicine Legal Yet?
http://www.immly.org/
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