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Wisconsin Marijuana Activists To Travel To D.C.
Posted by CN Staff on August 19, 2003 at 22:41:05 PT
For Immediate Release
Source: IMMLY 
Mondovi & Madison Wisconsin – Two longtime Wisconsin medical marijuana activists are helping to spearhead a Washington D.C. memorial for a New Jersey multiple sclerosis patient and fellow medical marijuana activist who died of complications from the disease on June 7. Jacki Rickert and Gary Storck, from the group, Is My Medicine Legal YET? -- http://www.immly.org -- will be traveling to Washington to memorialize the late Cheryl Miller -- http://www.cherylheart.org -- and visit congressional offices with other medical marijuana patients and advocates September 22-23, 2003. 
The two worked closely with Cheryl and her husband Jim, joining them on a number of lobbying trips to Washington, including one in 1999, when Jim Miller was arrested as the foursome blocked the former Georgia Republican Rep. Bob Barr’s office doorway, to protest his opposition to medical marijuana. Barr went on to lose a GOP primary in 2002 after the Libertarian Party began airing a tv commercial featuring the seriously ill and paralyzed Cheryl Miller asking Barr why he would keep medical marijuana from her. -- http://drugpolicycentral.com/real/cherylmiller.rm Events will include a candlelight memorial vigil at the U.S. Supreme Court on the evening of September 22, and a press conference and lobbying day on September 23. Supporters who cannot make the trip to Washington will be encouraged to contact congressional representatives by phone on September 23. Earlier on the 22nd, multiple sclerosis patients attending the event will visit offices of the MS Society to protest the group’s refusal to support legal access to medical marijuana for MS patients, and their failure to provide accurate information on the medicinal benefits of marijuanaIMMLY founder and director Jacki Rickert said, “It’s going to be really hard to go to Washington and not see Cheryl. From the first time we met back in 1997, we really hit it off. We made a pact – we would be friends and sisters for life. Cheryl was one person I could never say no to.” Rickert said she and Cheryl had dreamed for years of holding a candlelight vigil for medical marijuana patients in Washington, “She kept asking, ‘this time?’ It’s not like seeing Cheryl’s physical presence, but believe me, she will be there.” Rickert adds, “She’ll have the best seat in the house.”“I last saw Cheryl in Washington last summer,” said IMMLY director of communications, Gary Storck. “The Millers and I were part of a press conference in the Capitol, for last session’s medical marijuana bill. That day, we started planning what would have been Cheryl’s 10th lifetime trek to Washington for late spring, but she ran out of time. Nevertheless, her spirit will definitely be with us at the Supreme Court, the halls of Congress and at the D.C. office of the MS Society.“ Storck added, “I can’t think of a better way to celebrate her life and honor her memory than by doing what Cheryl loved to do.”For further details, please visit the website of the Cheryl Miller Memorial Project: http://www.cheryldcmemorial.org/ contact IMMLY director of communications Gary Storck, 608.241.8922/608.217.4136 or IMMLY Founder Jacki Rickert 715.926.4950, or visit the IMMLY website at: http://www.immly.org/ Complete Title: Wisconsin Medical Marijuana Activists To Travel To Washington DC To Ask, “Is My Medicine Legal YET??”Published: August 20, 2003 CannabisNews Medical Marijuana Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on August 20, 2003 at 21:28:31 PT
Gary
Thank you for all you do. I hope the event is a big success. I hope Jim is doing ok too. 
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Comment #2 posted by Gary Storck on August 20, 2003 at 19:09:59 PT
Many ways to participate!
The Cheryl Miller Memorial Project would like to see as many folks make the trip to DC as possible. If you can't, please make a donation to help patients make this journey. This is much more than a memorial for Cheryl and other patients who have passed, this is a chance to put a face on the issue in the Capital and the halls of Congress that has never been seen before!We need everyone's help, and everyone can be a part of history. Make a donation, and if you can't, ask someone who can. And on September 23, we need everyone to spend some time dialing up Congress to let them know the people stand with the brave patients making this trip.It was never easy for Cheryl to get to Washington, or anywhere. It is not easy for Jacki, or most patients, to veer from the routines that help keep them healthy. Patients are willing to put their bodies and health on the line to send this message.Please lend them a hand! The silent majority needs to stand up and be counted. Please visit the site to learn more.
Cheryl Miller Memorial Project
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Comment #1 posted by Richard Paul Zuckerm on August 20, 2003 at 06:54:19 PT:
THIS RESIDENT OF NEW JERSEY WANTS TO BE THERE!
As a resident of The State of New Jersey, I want to be there on September 22-23, 2003, in Washington, D.C., to ask for H.R. 2233 to pass. I do not want to be arrested, though. I would ask readers to read comment number 8 of the article posted on www.cannabisnews.com around 4 or 5 days ago entitled "Drugs? What Drugs?" for my reasons for wanting to attend.
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