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Elections	PUB LTE: Wisconsin State Journal: VOTE FOR THOSE WHO SUPPORT LEGAL POT -- GARY STORCK August 19, 2022 - Dear Editor, Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized adult use of cannabis. Several more will be voting on adult-use legalization in November. But it's still illegal in Wisconsin, even though we are surrounded by legal states. Polls show 83% support legalizing medical cannabis and 61% support legalizing it for all adults. Gov. Tony Evers strongly supports both medical and...
Medical	Cannabadger/Is My Medicine Legal YET statement on 4/20 Wisconsin Medical Cannabis hearing April 20, 2022 - For immediate release Wednesday, April 20, 2022 IS MY MEDICINE LEGAL YET?: APRIL 20 Medical Marijuana Hearing: Let patients choose what works best for them IMMLY's director of communications, Gary Storck, a Wisconsin medical cannabis pioneer and longtime advocate who first discovered cannabis could treat his painful glaucoma symptoms 50 years ago this Oct. 3, offers this statement on the medical...
Medical	Sen. Mary Felzkowski sets 4/20 public hearing on medical cannabis bill April 12, 2022 - State Sen. Mary Felzokowski has scheduled a public hearing on her medical cannabis legislation for Wed. April 20, 2022 (Republicans set marijuana legalization hearing for April 20). While the legislature has adjourned for the 2021-2022 session, the hearing, which is being held in the Capitol's largest hearing room, should provide some interesting insight on the state of medical cannabis activism in...
Medical	Wisconsin State Journal: LETTER TO THE EDITOR Medical marijuana bill is watered down -- Gary Storck February 14, 2022 - The Wisconsin State Journal published by lates Letter to the Editor online on Monday, February 14, 2022. I've posted the letter as published below and here's the link to the letter online on the State Journal site. LETTER TO THE EDITOR Medical marijuana bill is watered down -- Gary Storck Dear Editor, As a glaucoma patient who has been inhaling cannabis for 50 years as a medical necessity to...
History	2022-02-04-Cannabis Common Sense #1109: Paul Stanford interviews Cannabadger's Gary Storck February 4, 2022 - Portland Oregon cannabis legend Paul Stanford interviewed me for his longrunning Portland OR cable tv/online weekly program "Cannabis Common Sense" and the interview premiered Friday, Feb. 4, 2022 at 10pm Central Time. This is the second time I've been on his show. I appeared live in person several years ago while visiting Portland. The show has been pre-recorded for awhile due to the pandemic but...
Medical	Wisconsin Radio Network: Advocate and Democrats critical of latest Republican medical marijuana bill February 2, 2022 - There has been a fair amount of media coverage regarding the recently announced Medical Cannabis Light proposal introduced by Sen. Mary Felzkowski and other Republicans here in the waning days of the 2021-2022 legislative session. Wisconsin Radio Network's Bob Hague wrote a report for Wisconsin Radio Network published January 31, 2022 that included comments I'd made in an interview a few days...
Medical	Flurry of cannabis-related activity as 2021-2022 enters final weeks: Dems offer substitute amendment legalizing cannabis to butane hash bill, Republicans offer medical cannabis bill January 26, 2022 - Madison: With just weeks remaining in the 2021-2022 Wisconsin legislative session, Sen. Mary Felzkowski, (R-Tomahawk) and Rep. Pat Snyder, (R-Schofield), joined by six other GOP colleagues in the Capitol's assembly Parlor to announce the introduction of medical cannabis legislation. Felzkowski had also sponsored similar legislation last session. In remarks at the presser laying out some of the...
Medical	Fifty years a medical cannabis patient in 2022 January 12, 2022 - This Oct. 3, I'll be marking 50 years as a medical cannabis patient in America, and as a Wisconsin resident, that has meant a half century on the front lines of the war on drugs. It was on Oct. 3, 1972. I was a 17-year old high school senior born with glaucoma. For 17 years I suffered eye pain and sensitivity and vision loss. Even after diagnosis as a small child, conventional medications were not...
Politics	Video: Robin Vos out of his mind on marijuana January 2, 2022 - Below is a 43 second video of WI Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Upfront in 2019 bloviating about the alleged horrors of WI Fov. Tony Evers' support of cannabis legalization.
Decriminalization	Wisconsin State Journal: PUB LTE: GOP isn't serious about legalizing pot -- Gary Storck December 30, 2021 - After hearing about this proposal, now numbered Senate Bill 790, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable with a proposal that took away local control and undid years and years of efforts to lower local penalties. I labored long over this letter, finally getting it to the point where I felt it was ready for submission to the WSJ. Dear Editor, Current Wisconsin law against cannabis dates to 1972....

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