"Where's Jacki's Medicine?" Picketing Bill
Posted on Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 05:51:38 PM EST
Tags: Medical Marijuana, Bill Clinton, Wisconsin, Jacki Rickert (all tags)
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."
As Bill disembarked today, we caught his eye, and I was close enough to shout, "You priomised Jacki Rickert you'd get her Medical Marijuana in 1992."
If I'm correctly reading body language, he turned to State Democratic Chair Joe Wineke, asking "what's that about?" Joe knows Jacki's story, he was around for the ceremony last fall on the introduction in the Wisconsin Assembly of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, currently bottled up in Committee.
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