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April 13, 2005
At the 2005 NORML Conference in San Francisco
Posted by Gary Storck
Wednesday April 13, 2005
Several Madison NORML members were among a near record crowd of 500 attendees at the 2005 NORML Conference in San Francisco California from March 31-April 2.
The City as viewed from the 52nd floor of the Bank of America building, the Carnelian Room.
Madison NORML/IMMLY/WI NORML co-founder Gary Storck and IMMLY founder Jacki Rickert were among four recipents of NORML's Peter McWilliams award for “outstanding achievement in advocating the cause of medical marijuana, access to a safe effective medicine and equity under the law” on April 1 at the group's annual conference in San Francisco California March 31-April 2. The other recipients were Angel Raich and Diane Monson, of the Raich v. Ashcroft medical cannabis case now before the U.S. Supreme Court with a ruling expected any day as of this writing.
Gary and Jacki proudly display their awards with fellow “Commando Squad” member Jim Miller.
The award presentation, delayed by technical problems from the night before, was by NORML's new director Allen St. Pierre.
Allen's presentation was preceded by Jim Miller, who talked about Gary and Jacki and their activism.
The luncheon then proceeded on to the main event -- an amazing talk from travel writer Rick Steves, who wowed the packed room with his sensible observations on cannabis and beyond from the view of a world traveler. You can read the text, thanks to Fred Gardner, at the link at the bottom of this page.
California medical cannabis physicians pose after presenting a very informative panel: Bottom, from left, Dr. David Bearman, Dr. Frank Lucido, Dr. Tod Mikuriya, Top, from left, Dr. Tom O'Connell, Dr. Mollie Fry, Dr. Phillip Denney, Moderator, Fred Gardner.
More to come...
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Additional Reports:
CULTURAL BAGGAGE RADIO SHOW produced by Dean Becker
04/05/05 - NORML Conference Special
29 minutes. 2.5 minute Gary Storck interview at 25:00.
Photo courtesy of Fred Gardner
MPEG: http://drugtruth.net/MP3/FDBCB_040505.mp3
REAL: http://drugtruth.net/ram2rm/to040505.ram
ARCHIVE: http://drugtruth.net/
The Vancouver Sun: Oakland's Noble Pot Experiment
FRED GARDNER: Rick Steves: a Voice of Sanity "Getting High is a Little Like Cuba: When the Government Says 'No', You've Just Got to Go There"
click here
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Posted by Gary at April 13, 2005 10:54 PM
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