Tag: Jacki Rickert
By Ben Masel, Section Diaries
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 05:51:38 PM EST
Tags: Medical Marijuana, Bill Clinton, Wisconsin, Jacki Rickert (all tags)
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 05:51:38 PM EST
Tags: Medical Marijuana, Bill Clinton, Wisconsin, Jacki Rickert (all tags)
Just back from Bill Clinton's appearance at the historic Stock Pavilion on the University of Wisconsin Campus. When Gary Storck and I approached, we were directed across the street by the most polite pair of Secret Service agents I've ever dealt with, but, as it's a narrow street, not an unreasonable "Free Speech Zone."
Our signs referred to Bill's encounter, as a Candidate, with Jacki Rickert of Mondovi, Wisconsin in 1992. Jacki had been approved for the federal medical marijuana program, but not yet admitted when Bush I closed the program to new admissions in 1989. She caught up with Bill in Osseo on his post-Convention Mississippi River bus tour. After she explained her odyssey through the federal bureaucracy, Bill "I feel your pain" promised "When I'm President, you'll get your medicine."
Come the Inaugural, Jacki sent letters, made calls seeking fulfillment of that commitment, but got back only form letters. "If drugs were legal, my brother Roger would be dead."
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