Pubdate: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 Source: Ann Arbor News (MI) Copyright: 1999 Michigan Live Inc. Feedback: http://aa.mlive.com/about/toeditor.html Website: http://aa.mlive.com/ Forum: http://aa.mlive.com/forums/ Author: STEVE PEPPLE ASSISTANT METRO EDITOR LOCAL WOMAN ARRESTED IN CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE Ann Arbor marijuana activist says she smoked joint while waiting to discuss its benefits An Ann Arbor woman, who has waged a number of court battles over her use of marijuana to ease the effects of multiple sclerosis, faces trial Monday for smoking a marijuana cigarette in a congressman's Capitol office. Renee Emry Wolfe, 38, who is pregnant with her fourth child, said she was arrested last Sept. 15 by Capitol police after she lit up a marijuana cigarette in the outer offices of U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, a Florida Republican. Wolfe said she spent several hours in jail before being released on her own recognizance. Wolfe, diagnosed in 1979 with multiple sclerosis, said she was attempting to see McCollum to discuss pending legislation that opposed the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Wolfe said she became nervous and upset, so she lit up a marijuana cigarette to help calm her. "I started having a (spasm) and that's the best way for me to prevent those attacks from happening to me," Wolfe said Saturday from her home in Ann Arbor's Pittsfield Village. - --- MAP posted-by: Don Beck