HARVEST FEST WILL TOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA BENEFITS

Thanks to Dave Zweifel for shedding some light on the federal
government's cruel policies toward medical marijuana, in his column
Friday on the treatment of Ed Rosenthal, "War on drugs turns into atrocity."

While federal authorities are appealing Rosenthal's one-day sentence,
Rosenthal has also filed an appeal over questionable actions by both
the judge and prosecutor in his case.

In the meantime, Rosenthal, no stranger to Madison, is at last word
still planning to speak at this year's Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest
Festival Oct. 4 in Madison. Rosenthal is expected to be joined by
Dennis Peron, a longtime San Francisco medical marijuana activist who
helped write Proposition 215, which became California's groundbreaking
medical marijuana law when passed by voters in 1996.

Also expected are Jim Miller, caregiver and husband of Cheryl Miller,
a New Jersey multiple sclerosis patient and medical marijuana
patient-activist, who succumbed to the disease June 7 after 32 years;
Wisconsin patient-activist Jacki Rickert; and other speakers, bands,
vendors, and information tables as in prior years.

Gary Storck

director of communications

Is My Medicine Legal YET?

Madison