Madison NORML

Jim Miller was there with a portable dvd player loaded with clips of the Commando Squad taking over Barr’s office in October 1999 click here and the libertarian party commercial featuring his late wife Cheryl.

Cheryl Miller and Bob Barr, two days before Jim placed her in Barr's office doorway in protest of his mmj position.

Jim Miller and Bob Barr, at the "debate", January 18, 2007.

The Commando Squad at Bob Barr's office on Thursday October 21, 1999.

The Libertarian Party commercial with Cheryl that unseated Barr.

Engaging Barr in conversation as he arrived, Jim quickly got an inkling that his position on medical marijuana had evolved a full 180 degrees.

During the Q&A, Barr had kind words about Cheryl and noted she had passed. Later, Barr posed for a photo with Jim, and told him to call him Bob.

Jim reported that Barr’s conversion came to the apparent surprise of the entire room. And while Barr’s position now is perhaps based more on the Constitution than compassion, the end result is that the congressman with whom we disagreed so much that we staged at protest in his doorway now agrees with us.

But, we need the folks in Congress now to act on this now. With Wednesday’s DEA raids in the LA area taking out 11 medical cannabis dispensaries in one day click here, Congress needs to step in and step up and protect patients and states’ rights. Barr’s defection certainly undermines what little standing medical cannabis opponents have left.