Fear a Medical Marijuana Veto? Contact Gov. Lynch!

Let's do it for Sandy... (4.00 / 2)

And let's also do it for all the patients who do not quite possess her amazing level of courage!

Executive Director, NH Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy

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by: Matt Simon @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 05:31:13 AM CDT

Government should stay out of medical decisions. (4.00 / 2)

Just as the decisions regarding pregnancies are not an area where government should interpose itself between physician and patient, so are the decisions as how to manage  pain, nausea etc in the critically ill.

It really isn't anyone else's business. Denying medical care to those in pain is cruel and pointless, and only serves to perpetuate a divisive cultural war that should have ended thirty years ago.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 06:43:29 AM CDT

cruel and pointless, indeed (4.00 / 1)

Well said, Paul.

I should have also mentioned in the post that letters to newspapers would be very helpful at this point... 13 states recognize that patients are not criminals, and obviously, we ought to be next.  

Executive Director, NH Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy

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by: Matt Simon @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 07:02:43 AM CDT

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Yes. (4.00 / 2)

And

It really isn't anyone else's business

that is a distinctly New Hampshire attitude as well.

And I say these things as a reflexively prudish person on mind-altering substances of any kind.

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 07:58:25 AM CDT

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lingo (4.00 / 1)

reflexively prudish is a term I rather connect with puberty...not drug use. But sex and drugs and r&r go together I guess.

Its medicine. What is the freeping deal ? The mind altering part escapes me. The use of marijuana (to get high) has been in evidence for thousands of years in many cultures. It was legal in ours until it became associated with Negroes and Mexicans, and Jazz music, ala movies such as Reefer madness.

It was very interesting to hear Rich Lowery, the editor of the National Review,on TV this evening on a squak show. He supports medical marijuana and decriminalization, while also supporting the increased regulation and eventual criminalization of Tobacco. He justified this position on health grounds, because someone he works with survived chemo and told him the only thing that actually helped get over the nausea was the weed. Lowry is otherwise despicable,and I tend to discount his support, but this shows that necessary broad base of support for these measures is growing across the spectrum.

Cocaine, Morphine, Darvon, Oxycontin, etc. etc. etc. are  controlled substances because they both are highly addictive and highly effective. That is the purpose of use in legal prescription medicine.WE will eventually regulate, license production and tax Marijuana use like any of these other substances. Make high grade prescription quality 'medicine' available for those under a Doctor's care who have a prescription. Hello, am I missing something ?

All these other substances are much more likely to get someone addicted and hurt their lives, than controlled medical Marijuana usage, IMO.

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg

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by: JonnyBBad @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 22:08:23 PM CDT

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The CDC did a study of the relative addictive nature of drugs. (4.00 / 2)

At the top, tobacco, cocaine, highly refined opiates, alcohol,

at the bottom? coffee and marijuana.

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 18:37:48 PM CDT

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There's an interesting article (4.00 / 3)

in the new Mother Jones magazine about marijuana - with an interesting timeline.

I had no idea that William Randolph Hearst was largely to blame.  

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by: susanthe @ Sat Jun 27, 2009 at 19:08:45 PM CDT

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Write/Call/Visit Governor Lynch! (4.00 / 1)

Matt's right, as was Burt Cohen yesterday.  This bill should be signed.  Overriding a veto would be difficult at best -- there is no guarantee that we could get a 2/3rds vote in the House, and it's apparent that it would be very difficult to get in the Senate.  

This is a compassionate bill the Governor should sign.  Governor John Lynch does want to hear from us.  He proved that in his eventual support of House Bill 436.  He SIGNED marriage equality, and few thought that would be possible several months ago.  So, call, write, FAX, E-Mail him, or drop by his office if you're in the State House:

Governor John Lynch
Office of the Governor
State House
25 Capitol Street
Concord, NH 03301
Telephone:  (603) 271-2121
FAX:  (603)271-7680

Email the Governor:  
http://www4.egov.nh.gov/govern...

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 08:49:14 AM CDT