Pubdate: Mon, 06 Oct 2003
Source: Daily Cardinal (WI Edu)
Copyright: 2003 The Daily Cardinal Newspaper Corporation
Contact:  http://www.cardinal.wisc.edu/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/712

NEWS BRIEF: ACTIVISTS TOKE UP ON LIBRARY MALL

Organizers estimated about 1,000 people assembled downtown Saturday for the 
Great Midwest Harvest Festival, an annual gathering of pro-marijuana activists.

The day included a parade from Library Mall to the Capitol and speeches by 
many activists including Gary Storck, who has used marijuana for 31 years 
to ease his glaucoma, and Jacki Ricker, who suffers from nerve and muscle 
disorders.

They and other speakers advocated the legalization of medical marijuana in 
Wisconsin.

Although many attendees openly smoked joints in public during the 
festivities, police did not arrest anyone.
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