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38th Annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival this weekend in Madison
10/4/08|The Daily Kenoshan| by Lisa Loring

Attend this year's Madison NORML 38th Annual Harvest Festival this coming weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 2008! There'll be LIVE MUSIC, speakers, and vendors. Learn about NORML and what's going on from fellow Madisonites and Wisconsinites. Free Event! October 3,4 & 5, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Friday October 3
Cardinal Bar 5-8pm
Kick off Harvest Fest weekend at the 6th annual IMMLY/Madison NORML medical cannabis benefit and the First Annual IMMLY awards with comedian Nick Mortensen and blues/roots music from the Riddiough-Shanahan Band. $10 suggested donation includes food.
Cardinal Bar 418 E Wilson St, in downtown Madison 53703.

Saturday October 4
Library Mall from 12-6 pm
Live Music Schedule:
12:00-1:00p Not On Mars
1:30-2:30p The Grasshoppers
3:00-4:15p Baghdad Scuba Review
4:45-6:00p Reverend Eddie Danger

Plus speakers including Ben Masel, Jacki Rickert, Gary Storck, Gatewood Galbraith (KY) and more TBA, vendors, informational tables and displays and food carts.

Library Mall is at State and Lake Streets in downtown Madison adjacent to the UW-Madison Library and campus.

After show - Mr. Roberts Bar, 2116 Atwood Av
10p Eugene Smiles Project, no cover

Sunday October 5
Gather at Library Mall 2 pm
2-3:30p Live music from Appleton's Ifdakar
Parade to State Capitol 3:40 pm with Stink Tank and the Harvest Fest Sound System
Rally and Concert with the Special Dank Midnights at State St. steps of the Capitol 4:20 pm

The "Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival" has been held every year since 1970 in Madison WI. The 38th Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival is scheduled for October 3, 4 and 5, 2008. The Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival, aka "Harvest Fest", is sponsored by Madison NORML, Wisconsin NORML, Is My Medicine Legal YET?, -Wisconsin Hemp Order, University of Wisconsin-Madison Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the Drug Policy Forum of Wisconsin and Weedstock.com.

"The Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act" did not progress out of committee, and is dead for the session. Please help campaign for and elect progressive elected representatives and be sure to vote this fall.

In the 2007-2008 sesion, State Representatives Frank Boyle (D-Superior) and Mark Pocan (D-Madison) introduced the "The Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act" seeking to protect Wisconsin Medical Marijuana patients from State prosecution.

Ten years ago in September 1997, Rickert led 15 medical marijuana patients on a 210-mile wheelchair "Journey for Justice" from Mondovi to Madison, which reached the Capitol on Sept. 18, 1997. The 1997 Journey for Justice was dedicated to the memory of Jacki's late physician, William E. Wright, of Mondovi, who gained approval for her participation in a federal medical marijuana program only to see George Bush the elder close it to new patients in 1992.

Please Contact your Assembly Representative and State Senator, and ask them support medical cannabis. To contact your state legislators, call the State Legislative Hotline Toll-free at: 1-800-362-9472. You can send a pre-written letter via this link, but personal letters or phone calls are better.