The Portage Daily Register has this article about a former Marquette County Wisconsin cop facing a second set of charges relating to allegations of drug thefts from the department evidence locker.

As a heart patient, I know that cannabis can be very beneficial for many heart patients. The following letter expounds on that awareness.

Last session, a bill to ban the herb, salvia divinorum, a member of the mint family, was introduced into the state legislature click here. The bill received a hearing, but died on March 21, according to the state legislature website.

As a Waukesha native, I was a bit surprised to read allegations a couple of locals decided to take on marijuana prohibition head on by selling pot out of their downtown storefront, along with candles. Today and when I last lived in Waukesha over 25 years ago, the largest drug dealer downtown was and is a large liquor/tobacco store in a former Sears department store building. The store hums with business all day every day. Dozens of smoky downtown bars round things out by keeping the suds and drinks flowing.

Dutch authorities acted wisely in exempting cannabis from the nation’s upcoming smoking ban. Science has pretty much debunked any cancer connection from smoking the herb, while establishing cannabis and its cannabinoid constituents are actually potent cancer fighters click here.

On May 20, NORML’s Paul Armentano posted an article on NORML’s blog, “Is Senator Kennedy A Victim Of Pot Prohibition?” click here.

In a few weeks, Congress will again be voting on the Hinchey Amendment. The annual vote is on a federal budget amendment that would prohibit the use of federal funds to subvert state medical cannabis laws and target patients and providers in the 12 states where it is now legal.

Rice Lake WI native Dr. David Bearman’s candidacy for Santa Barbara CA county supervisor ended with a loss with a record low turnout in the June 3 primary. Readers may recall Dr. Bearman spent several days back in Wisconsin last November spreading the word about medical cannabis, holding a book signing, lecturing at the UW Medical School click here, and testifying before the State Senate’s Health Committee click here.

A Wisconsin medical cannabis patient suffering from intractable pain from adhesive arachnoiditis recently sent Congressman Ron Kind (D-La Crosse) an emotional letter asking that he cosponsor current medical marijuana legislation in Congress, HR 5842 click here.

Two year ago. click here, I wrote post titled, “A letter from 27 years ago today”. Having just endured another long afternoon at the eye doctor, it seems good to take a look back.

From the May 28, 2008 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel comes this response from columnist Jim Stingl to the response to his recent column on cannabis click here.

Jim Maas of Rothschild, a member of the executive committee of the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, had a column about the federal farm bill that included support for hemp farming in Wisconsin published in the Wausau Daily Herald.

On Sunday, former congressman Bob Barr (R-GA) received the Libertarian Party presidential nomination at their convention in Denver. But how did a right-wing ideologue like Barr, who championed the USA PATRIOT Act, authored and sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, and blocked the counting of votes in a Washington DC medical marijuana initiative end up being the nominee of a party that embraces freedom and is named after liberty?

Madison's Capital Times published my letter about cannabis decriminalization today!

What a nice surprise to find a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist, Jim Stingl, acknowledging the drug war has failed and urging the legalization of cannabis! Read on!