1. Single-toke dosage info: at 25-mg. per serving, 3 ounces of properly sifted herb is 2700 units.

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I worked tirelessly in Michigan to see Medical marijuana available. I moved to Green Bay six years ago. Now I could get my medicine in Michigan, however I'm in Wisconsin going to school and working part-time. I pay taxes, I'm furthering my college education and I have used marijuana since age nine to alleviate the nausea from severe migraine headaches. This year Brown County spent two weeks doing surveillance on me: at my home, my work place, and used twelve drug task force agents to raid my home after discovering seeds and stems in my trash. They found .36 of a gram and five or more smoking devices. Prior I had no criminal record. I am 35 years old. They fined me $ 539.00. I lost my housing assistance, ended up homeless for a month, and now no one will rent to me because I have a drug charge. I can't afford a place to live with my three kids on my limited income. So all three of my children and I share a two bedroom apartment with a room mate.

Brown county wasted tax dollars, going after me with suspicions of me being tied to drug manufacturing and dealing. I never poss more than 3.5 grams at a time! Worse yet when I was at my plea hearing the judge stated "so you were using this substance without a prescription?" I replied " your honor where do I get my prescription?" I am not a criminal. I suffer severe migraines. Vicodin, Inderol, Imitrex, Xanax, Phenergen, etc, etc. None works like the medicine God has created. Why am I oppressed and forced to ingest chemical compounds that cause more side affects and harm than good?

I am so sick and tired of these hypocrits! This is a country founded by people and governed by those people. Why the hell aren't the people speaking loudly enough for our representatives to comprehend our demands? Is it because Drug companies line their pockets with fat sums of idiot money? Only an idiot would choose money over compassion! Give me what I want or give me a ticket outta this Police Powered Evil place!

I feel for the person in Wisconsin who has been harassed by the police simply over marijuana possesion. As a former resident of that benighted state, I well understand what a police state it is. Why is there no real outcry at the University at Madison over this? What is one to make of the decades of "Harvest Festival" marches in favor of marijuana law reform that have gone absolutely no where?
I call for national examination of Wisconsin by progressives. History will show the state's progressive leadership was the biggest suck-ass of the status quo of all time.
Who would have thought that even after **decades** of "Harvest Festival" protest marches at Madison, with all the out-of-state students doing their retro-sixties thing before they get jobs in daddies firm, that Wisconsin does not even have a medical marijuana program!?? To anyone who can understand the situation there, this is truly breath-taking, implicating an entire generation of fake progressives. Anyone in the Wisconsin NORML or Green Party should hang their heads in shame---and then get to work.

Now that Barack Obama's promise has been kept, sort of, it will be a lot easier for medical marijuana laws to get passed. Federal interference has been used as an excuse for refusing to enact state reforms for too long, now that's coming to an end.

It only makes sense that in this time of econonomic strife to stop spending millions/billions to prosecute maijuana users instead of making use of funds that could be generated from it. I personally know several people who would rather use maijuana for ailments ranging from post traumatic stress to cancer than take the handfulls of pills that the Drs. prescribe that have soo many adverse effects that can destroy their kidneys, liver and brain. I've helped friends get off vicodin, oxycotton and many other drugs that were destroying their bodies and mental capacity but were prescribed by Drs.. I'm not saying that marijuana is a cure all, but it's less damaging and addicting than most pain killers that are prescribed today. So instead of persecuting these people and pushing them into the "drug world"why don't we help them find a more natural remedy? People have been afraid to stand up for fear of losing jobs/benefits and being prosecuted for way to long! It's time we did something about it!!!

I live in Wisconsin. I have many severe medical issues and live everyday in so much pain. Pain that gets so bad that I just want it to end it all. Prescription drugs like oxycodone and oxycotin nearly killed me. I went back to my beloved herb after that and for two years I vaporized medical grade marijuana. The woman I was going to marry couldn't handle the stress of me being busted. So what does she do? She rats me out and hands my stuff over to the cops when I wasn't home. Now I'm back on the damn prescription drugs I was on before plus a whole lot more. I still have a lot of pain plus all the side effects of the drugs. My Dr. resigned and no other Dr. is willing to fill my prescriptions. Now I'm going through the pain clinic again and hoping they will get a Dr. in my area to fill my prescriptions. Good news is my pain clinic Dr. is all for marijuana. I can't risk getting caught again as this last time was my 3rd time. I never had more then 7 grams at a time. Vaporising with a Silver Surfer Vaporizer is the most awesome way to go. Herb helps me to live my life and be able to do something other then suffer.

I need this medical bill to pass my life depends on it!!

Greetings to all of you in WI and working to see LRB 2517 pass [and 'ello to anyone else reading this :)]!

I lived in WI from age 7 until age 19, came back for awhile to attend UWM, work, and raise my child from 1988 to 1998. So, establishing that I know WI and their politics very well, I agree with the person(s) who refer to WI as a pseudo police state. I have many of my own stories to back that up but that would simply diverge too far from the point of my post. One story though; Luckily, my only brush with the law and use of my preferred medication (used for lifelong and crippling depression, migraines, ADD, and most currently two herniated discs in my upper spine and fractures in my lumbar as well), was as a teenager (I think I was 17) in the small town where I grew up and the officer was a cousin, lol. So I got lucky. However, had we not been related, it would have been all bad as he had a reputation for stalking the smokers and laying down the law as harshly as possible - even overstepping the bounds of the law on many occasions. (hard to admit relation to this man but I guess we all have "one of those" in our families somewhere, lol)

I've spent the last seven years living in Northern California and I was lucky enough to have been a part of the medical MJ program there. My prescribing doctor made sure I had a card, and that I could legally walk into a dispensary at anytime and buy my medicine. I could even grow my own and I did (even with the blessing of the property owner from whom I rented - so there's a whole other aspect of enacting these sorts of programs; there needs to be protections for property owners!). And in CA there are even state sanctioned courses available to MMJ (medical marijuana) patients to learn how to grow and make your own edibles should you prefer your medicine in that form, and many do!! WI could learn a lot from CA's MMJ program, Prop 215. And thankfully with Obama in the WH, hopefully the raids of the honest dispensaries and threats to property owners will end - the Feds and the DEA have been absolutely brutal! You'd think with Jerry Brown as the State's Attorney General it would not be so bad however he's recently changed his stance and is on our side again (damn political wafflers!).

So my point - finally (damn ADD, lol), is that no amount of marches and protests will change the laws. We need to go right to our senators, legislators, and state representatives, and write them, call them, email them, bug them 24/7!! Do whatever you can to get the message across that LRB 2517 needs to pass and state the reasons why - so many of them obvious; end the drug wars, illegal trade and transportation, stop the cartels, release non-violent offenders from overcrowded prisons, relieve police departments from one more thing they have to worry about, and most importantly, give legitimate patients the right to choose the medicine that best serves their needs. This is so much of a quality of health care issue as well! To anyone on antidepressants, you know what I'm talking about; good mood stabilization comes at a cost of so many negative side effects of the drugs on the market. You can also support a real Medical Marijuana lobby in Washington DC - the Marijuana Policy Project (MMP - http://www.mpp.org ).

Also of interest to this issue: I'd like to take this opportunity to give a shout out to BPG (Berkeley Patients Group)! This last Saturday (10/24/09), CNN aired a one-hour report entitled "Mellowing on Medical Marijuana." Brad Senesac is the spokesperson for BPG and was part of the program; you can view his segment here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L0IWMtI1BU. All the other segments from the report are there to be viewed as well, and my review is that CNN did a nice job painting MMJ in a positive light, something along the lines of "legalize it already!!"

My story ends with the fact that this is so issue vital to me now that I've had to leave CA for financial reasons (housing costs out there are so outrageous), but needed to stay close enough to travel back and forth for my ongoing worker's compensation case regarding my back injuries (and there's another program that needs serious overhaul - Worker's Compensation). I'm now residing in AZ where there is no MMJ program, luckily I'm not in Maricopa County. But here's a state that's on the border, has serious immigration and drug trade problems and they could eliminate the latter of those severe problems by creating an MMJ program as 15 other States have done. So I have my work cut out for me here Arizona if I'm to remain here for long. However the heat is brutal in the summers and it really makes me miss the frigid cold and snow of Wisconsin, lol! I also miss my family, my daughter, who all live in the Madison, WI area so if given the opportunity, I think I'd like to move back to WI as soon as my WC case is over. The one thing that stops me from making that move though is the fact that WI is not among the states that have an MMJ program and it is a medicine that is so vital to the quality of my life. I put myself at serious risk here in AZ every time I seek out my medication and I don't like that at all so have been forced to go back to traditional pharmaceuticals and have to deal with endless and awful side-effects.

So pass LRB 2517 so I can come home!!

Thanks, and I'll be passing this info on to all my family and friends in WI to help get this legislation passed!

p.s. Does anyone know if they've tried to make marijuana cheese? hehe