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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n2092/a03.html
Newshawk: Nicolas Eyle
Pubdate: Mon, 17 Dec 2001
Source: Star-Gazette (NY)
Copyright: 2001sStar-Gazette
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Website: http://www.stargazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1005
Author: Jim Pfiffer

GRANDMOTHER TRIED TO HELP OTHERS WITH POT

For five years, Sherrie D.  Wilkie sold some of the best marijuana in Elmira.  She had hashish and exotic pot from Hawaii and Amsterdam.  Her drugs were potent and cheap.  One variety was so powerful, she labeled it "Oh My God!"

Sherrie Wilkie But Wilkie isn't your typical drug dealer.  She's a 65-year-old single grandmother who claims she doesn't deal drugs for profit but to help those who are ill and in pain.

That's why Wilkie organized a medical marijuana buyers' club about four years ago.  Her customers included herself and people with cancer, AIDS, chronic back pain and other ailments.

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MAP posted-by: Beth

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