I was born and raised in the 51st, in Clyde Township. Kyle and I are raising our three young children on the same farm I grew up on. We own a locally focused restaurant in Spring Green. We are a working class family. As a mom and a small business owner I am no stranger to hard work. I am not seeking this office because I think that it will be easy, I am seeking it because so much is on the line right now. Our very democracy hangs by a thread.

This is not a time when we can sit back and see what happens, this is a time when we must stand up and fight for the rights of the people. 

Wisconsin has some very harsh penalties related to marijuana possession, sale, and cultivation. Wisconsin’s prisons are overflowing with 23,000 people incarcerated. We need to drastically cut our prison populations by doing away with the incarceration of low-level non violent drug offenders.

The use of Marijuana provides an alternative to pain relief options, which may lower some of our dependence on prescription drugs like opioids. In studies published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that states that allow the use of cannabis for medical purposes had 2.21 million fewer daily doses of opioids prescribed per year under Medicare Part D, compared with those states without medical cannabis laws. Opioid prescriptions under Medicaid also dropped by 5.88% in states with medical cannabis laws compared with states without such laws, according to the studies.