On Saturday; attendee's of the 37th annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival asked the question: "Why isn't it legal?". The festival goers made it their focus to talk about a bill which could be introduced in the state Legislature this week that would allow Marijuana to be used for certain ailments.

"Every day, cannabis helps me live better, " said Gary Storck, of Madison, the organizer of the event, who uses marijuana for glaucoma and chronic pain. "Immediately when I take it I feel a good effect. "

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Boyle, D-Superior, and Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, likely will be introduced Monday, Pocan said last week. It is being called the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act after a woman who rode her wheelchair 210 miles from Mondovi to Madison 10 years ago to raise awareness of the issue.

It seems Wisconsin is a hot spot for medical Marijuana these days, check out our previous article on a lady in Mondovi, WI who is leading the fight for medical Marijuana in her town.

The Chicago Tribune has yet more proof of senator McCain's complete lack of understanding of medical Marijuana. In his latest blunder, the senator tells off a sickly woman in a wheelchair, telling her there are other options for her pain. Here's a snip:

Even a sickly, soft-spoken woman in a wheelchair gets no pass from him. The other day, at a meeting with voters in New Hampshire, Linda Macia mentioned her use of medical marijuana and politely asked his position on permitting it. Barely were the words out of her mouth before the Arizona senator spun on his heel, stalked away and heaped scorn on the idea.

You may be one of the unique cases in America that only medical marijuana can relieve pain from," he said, in a skeptical tone. "Every medical expert I know of, including the AMA (American Medical Association), says there are much more effective and much more, uh, better treatments for pain. He also ridiculed the notion that police would arrest patients for using marijuana as medicine.

This is how you treat sick people? Yes, Senator, police would and do arrest patients for using marijuana as a medicine. Here's our previous story, showing how much compassion senator McCain has for medical Marijuana patients.

The Leader-Telegram Online has a story about Jacki Rickert of Mondovi, WI and her fight to get medical Marijuana available in her state. Here's a clip from the article:

As far back as high school, Rickert said, she has been suffering the debilitating effects of the genetic disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Both are chronic and incurable.

"(Doctors) don't know where one ends and the other beings," she said.

The ailments have left her in severe pain and confined to a wheelchair, and often to her modest, single-story home. Although she takes morphine for her pain, Rickert said marijuana saved her life.

This is the case for many suffering people in states without a medical marijuana program. As far as the government is concerned, Marijuana has no medicinal effects, yet it's saving this woman's life. Do we have any readers in WI?