Some good news even in defeat as two Wisconsin Republican congressmen join two Democratic colleagues in voting to prohibit funding of an Obama Administration crackdown on medical cannabis.

After Wisconsin Medical Society spokes[person Dr. Michael M. Miller MD FASAM testi-lied against medical cannabis legislation at the Dec. 15, 2009 combined hearings on the Jacki Rickert MMJ Act, patients and activists responded with protests at the group's annual meetings. Now, the Society may vote on a more scientific and humane policy.

My letter in the WI State Journal.

Wisconsin recall elections will allow voters to do some housecleaning over a number of issues.

Here is a look waaaay back at a time when Wisconsin lawmakers of all political stripes united and passed a medical cannabis bill.

Below is some information about a very important upcoming medical cannabis conference - The Seventh National Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics - being put on in Tucson AZ in late April by Patients Out of Time. Here is the Conference Brochure.

Here is my look at the recent Oregonian article on out of state patients.

Just how bad are Wisconsin pot laws? How about "Worst in the Midwest?"

Oregon's largest newspaper, the Oregonian, did a nice article on out of state patients in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. As one of those out of state patients, I was very pleased to contribute to this article.

Wisconsin's medieval cannabis laws are a cruel reality for the many unfortunates caught in the system for tiny amounts of the herb.

Medical cannabis activists found lobbyists had taken their spot as a missing permit app canceled a peaceful two decade old medical cannabis vigil.

Unfortunately, Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, the Wisconsin State Senate Republican Majority Leader, has chosen to assign the Senate version SB371, of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, to the Senate Health Committee chaired by an arch-opponent of protecting patients using their medicine. The action speaks volumes about Sen. Fitzgerald's concerns for state seniors, veterans, sick, disabled and dying.

An update on the Jacki Rickert MMJ Act.

Here is an update on the Jacki Rickert MMJ Act from Madison NORML Examiner.

Halfway to a Dec. 22 deadline for cosponsors to sign on to the new Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act and progress is being made. Here's an update on who is a cosponsor as of this writing.