When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 From 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where: OSHKOSH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 106 Washington Ave, Oshkosh WI (Meeting rooms A & B)
A forum on legalizing marijuana is being presented by the Fox Valley American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and moderated by Stephen Richards, a criminal justice professor. A discussion panel will include:
All are welcome to attend. The event is open to the public and there is no admission.
This forum is being sponsored and funded through donations by the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, TaxThis.org and Selthofner Consulting.
Please do not hesitate to contact the Caley with the Fox Valley ACLU at 920-470-6800 or Jay Selthofner 920-410-2920 for more information.
HOW TO GET TO THE OSHKOSH PUBLIC LIBRARY (106 Washington Avenue, Oshkosh, WI 54901) Oshkosh Public Library is located at 106 Washington Avenue one block east of Main Street and four blocks north of the Fox River in downtown Oshkosh. The library’s entrance is on the north side of the building facing the parking lot.
Round Table Discussion – Marijuana Legalization in Wisconsin
Tom Palzewicz for Congress is competing for the 5th Congressional District against long time marijuana hater Scott Fitzgerald.
Join Tom Palzewicz for Congress and a panel to discuss what medical and recreational marijuana legalization would mean to Wisconsin.
Tuesday Feb 25th 6pm-8p, at West Allis Public Library
Special Guests: Representative Melissa Sargent, Assembly District 48 Margaret “Maggie” Daun, corporation Counsel for Milwaukee County Along with other panel participants
Time of event is subject to change; check his Facebook Event Page for any changes.
Rep. Sargent to reintroduce marijuana legalization bill in Wisconsin (MADISON)
Assembly Rep. Sargent
On Monday, April 13th, Representative Melissa Sargent (D-Madison) will be officially introducing LRB-0188, which would legalize marijuana in Wisconsin.
Throughout the nation, marijuana legalization is gaining momentum. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Right here in Wisconsin, a bill was signed into law last year that legalized the use of cannabidiol for medical purposes, recognizing its healing benefits.
With an ever-expanding prison population, the worst racial disparities in the nation, and a black market that puts marijuana users in contact with hardened criminals; it is becoming increasingly clear that the most dangerous thing about marijuana is that it is illegal.
Representative Sargent will be joined by Joe Erato, the president of the Wisconsin Cannabis Project.
What: Press Conference announcing legislation to legalize marijuana for recreational and medicinal use. When: Monday April 13, 2015, 10:30a.m. Where: State Capitol, Assembly Parlor Who: – State Representative Melissa Sargent
Joe Erato – Wisconsin Cannabis Project
Monday, February 19 at 6:30 PM
115 West Council Street, Tomah, Wisconsin
420+ of your friends’ signatures are needed to rid Tomah of criminal charges for small amounts of weed. Find out how we can make this happen, and bring a friend.
A young child named Charlotte Figi captured the hearts of millions and help educate many to the benefits of “CBD”. At three months old, her first seizure started a journey that ended in a Facebook page to announce Charlotte “is seizure free forever.” Sadly, the now 13-year-old was hospitalized in 2020 with pneumonia, which caused her seizures to return and resulted in respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. She died peacefully in her mother’s arms on recently in April 2020.
Now it is 4/20 week (or month!) in Wisconsin and session ended early without so much as a public hearing. We head into 2020 knowing it is election time and the candidates are already calling for marijuana reform. Much of our success in our state in passing “CBD Laws” came from legislators finding compassion in their hearts for families of children, who like Figi, found therapeutic use of CBD beneficial. Many of these elected officials found themselves voting YES to cannabis for the first time in passing CBD and Industrial Hemp laws. Sadly, some of those same elected officials are uneducated on THC or think THC is the devil. Many of them have blocked any medical marijuana legislation from even a public hearing.
During this 4/20 week Senator Patrick Testin posted that Rep. Scott Krug, Rep Dave Considine, Rep Tony Kurtz, Senator Bob Wirch, Senator Van Wanggaard and Senator Lena Taylor awarded a posthumous citation to Charlotte Figi. Charlotte’s struggles with Dravet Syndrome and her subsequent treatment with CBD oil opened a lot of people’s eyes to CBD’s potential, and helped spur policy changes at the state and federal level.
At age five, Charlotte was experiencing as many as 300 grand mal seizures per week; she wasn’t expected to make it past her eight birthday. CBD cut that down to 0-1 per week. Her story made national news, and was featured on CNN. The chain reaction that set off ultimately led to federal and state reform of hemp laws and the popularization of CBD as a treatment option.
posthumous citation to Charlotte Figi
Are these elected officials just jumping on a bandwagon to make it look like they care? Do these legislators care? Are these people willing to discuss marijuana reform? (NOTE: Roger Roth had to sign it as President of the Senate).
I know and respect this award is about Charlotte Figi and is well deserved, but the name Van Wanggaard listed on anything supporting cannabis, even CBD bugs me. This Senator Wanggaard has blocked marijuana reform time and time again.
Senator Wanggaard
I easily found pediatric medical marijuana information online, many families from Wisconsin have moved to medical marijuana states when “CBD Only” legislation failed them in Wisconsin. They have all sorts of information on their websites, like wpa4a.org. Lots of scientific and anecdotal articles, testimonials, 24k members (most are treating children).
THC – CBD – CBG
Examine the voting records and statements by these elected officials will give us more information then the latest public relations efforts by their offices.
Curious on how your elected officials in Wisconsin stacked up as compared to others? Not sure who represents you? Enter your Zip Code and view the full reports of your officials at https://vote.norml.org/states/WI and review the Executive Summary to help digest the whole situation.
Help close out April 2020; 4/20 month by joining, donating, or buying something cool from our online store today! With your help and support will plan to add the candidate module of the Smoke The Vote Legislative Scorecard and Voter Guide for 2020 after the filing period. Thank you and keep the cannabis conversations going!
While these challenging times present many difficulties for those of us seeking to advance the goal of ending federal marijuana prohibition, NORML’s newly launched election tool provides our supporters with an easy and convenient way to assist in our fight for reform.
Despite the ongoing crisis we are faced with, the November elections will still hold major implications for the future of legalization and other cannabis policy reforms. That is why, today, we have an important ask for you: Are you ready to make a difference?
We’ve seen more candidates and elected officials than ever before express their support for marijuana policy reform. Unfortunately, there are still far too many politicians clinging to the ‘reefer madness’ of a bygone era. That is why NORML wants you to not only be an informed cannabis consumer, but we also need you and hundreds-of-thousands of others to be informed cannabis voters.
In recent years, members of Congress and thousands of state lawmakers have cast important votes for and against substantive marijuana policy reforms. This means that, wherever you reside, you most likely have elected officials that have personally weighed in on this issue. Do you know where they stand on the cannabis question? Are they representing your interests?
As we approach November, it is crucial that our friends, family, and neighbors know which candidates have voted the ‘right way’ on cannabis issues so that those of us who care about marijuana policy reform may cast our votes accordingly.
NORML provided you with the voting records of all of the federal candidates and Northern Wisconsin NORML has input most information on our current elected officials in Wisconsin, but we need your help with many others, especially those candidates running for office at the state and local level. That is where you come in. If you know something about your local candidate or politicians’ marijuana policy positions, help us inform the public!
With our easy to use tool, you can input key information about your elected officials and local candidates. Just find a candidate and at the bottom of the page, click “Know more about this politician’s position on marijuana? Tell us!” to enter their position and links to the source.
With your help, we’re going to build the most comprehensive database ever with regard to candidates’ marijuana records. Once we’re ready, we’ll spread the information far and wide to ensure that every American can be an informed cannabis voter.
Marijuana won big at the ballot box in 2016 and 2018, and we expect that 2020 will be even bigger. We need to show elected officials in all levels of government that those that continue to maintain prohibitionist perspectives will be held accountable and will be voted out of office.
It’s simple. No one deserves to be treated as a second class citizen because they responsibly consume marijuana.
We encourage you to join us in our efforts to build this new and comprehensive platform. For those of you who can donate your time, we thank you in advance. For those of you who are able to donate in other ways, such as by making a financial contribution to this effort, we are dearly grateful. That said, we know that these are difficult times for many of you economically, and we do not want our members to experience any further undue financial stress or hardship. Therefore, we only ask that those who are comfortable to do so consider making a financial contribution at this time.
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Together, we will be on the front lines fighting for the freedom to consume marijuana responsibly without fear of being branded as a criminal.
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