Medical marijuana battle comes down to the wire

Reynolds Phone Restored Monday (4.00 / 1)

For those who've been trying to reach Senator Deb Reynolds on this issue and haven't gotten through, her phone has been out of service.
Fairpoint says they'll send a repair technician Monday.
The crucial vote is Wednesday, and she needs to hear from people who live in her district (Plymouth to Meredith). Her number is 536-5553, and it should be back up sometime tomorrow. Her vote is crucial, as is that of Betis DeVries, whose number is not listed on the senate page, but call her senate office at 271-6933.

No'm Sayn?

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by: BurtCohen @ Sun Oct 25, 2009 at 19:33:11 PM CDT

We stood up for our brothers and sisters who wanted an equal right to marry. (4.00 / 1)

Now is the time is stand up for the sick and the infirm.

Denying patients the right to the medicine that their doctors think is needed is obscene.

"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 @ Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 18:45:47 PM CDT

we know (4.00 / 1)

that our courts are all backed up, that multiple DWI offenders aren't even being sentenced - that jail/prison staff are being laid off - so tell, me, please - where is the potential benefit in arresting and possibly jailing a chronically or terminally ill person?  Is this REALLY what we want to be doing with our limited resources?

The governor chose not to meet with the patients who wished to speak with him. Any lobbyist in Concord probably could have gotten a personal audience, but he refused to meet with sick constituents. That, my friends, is shameful.

"Let us reflect again on how cynical and how dark it is to even contemplate sending someone to prison for a year, when they may not even have that much time left in their life." Congressman Dennis Kucinich

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by: susanthe @ Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 19:08:17 PM CDT

Concord Monitor Says Lynch & Co. suffer from Reefer Madness (4.00 / 1)

http://www.concordmonitor.com/...
October 28, 2009 - 7:02 am

Gov. John Lynch and a number of other politicians appear to be suffering from reefer madness. No, not the drug-crazed abandon of young marijuana smokers in the 1938 anti-drug film that bombed as propaganda and packed them in as a cult comedy. That was fiction. The symptoms of this modern form of reefer madness are real.

The primary symptom is an inordinate fear of political repercussions for voting in favor of compassion for the people who suffer the torments of diseases like AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis. But the public supports legalizing the use of marijuana to alleviate suffering if precautions are taken. The political price of doing the right thing would be small.

Lynch, who vetoed House Bill 648 which legalized medical marijuana, fears that legalization for medical purposes could result in the drug getting into the wrong hands. If poor controls were in place, that could happen. But the law the Legislature passed was tougher than those in use in any of the 14 states that now sanction the use of medical marijuana.

Federal marijuana laws remain on the books, but U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that federal resources would not be used to prosecute legitimate medical marijuana users or their caregivers. New Hampshire's new U.S. attorney, John Kacavas, has said that he would follow Holder's policy and will not be prosecuting medical marijuana users.

Anyone who suffers from cancer or a terminal or debilitating illness has a right to live and die with dignity and as little pain as possible...to eat to overcome effects of Chemo.
So wtf ? Not doing something because of the fear of what Sununu might say, or what fear mongers want us to believe is chickenshit. Show me one instance in the medical literature of anyone ever dying of an overdose, or being hurt and going to an emergency room from it and I'll be amazed. Does not happen. Choose compassion over politics please Governor and Senators...

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." -Hunter S. Thompson, a while ago

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 06:44:50 AM CDT