PUSH FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT NOW

The sponsors of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, Rep. Mark
Pocan and Sen. Jon Erpenbach, showed support for veterans by
including post-traumatic stress disorder in the bill. While PTSD
affects people from all walks of life, multiple deployments and two
major wars have meant millions of vets have this affliction in varying degrees.

I visited the Capitol with a 26-year-old ex-Marine who served three
tours in Iraq and now feels like he's gone from "hero to zero." The
medications the VA provides treat his symptoms but leave him feeling
empty and sedated. Worse, users risk side effects including organ
damage, cancer and tremors.

We owe our veterans medical cannabis as a legal option alongside
their conventional medicines. We cannot tell a generation of young
vets that medications that will harm them are their only option, and
that a life on toxic medications is a quality one.

The medical marijuana act is good for Wisconsin. Special interests
that profit from keeping it from vets, seniors, the sick, disabled
and dying cannot be allowed to kill it for the ninth consecutive
legislative session. Please call your legislators at 1-800-362-9472.

- - Gary Storck, Madison, director of communications, Is My Medicine Legal YET?