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The New Hampshire State Senate failed to override Governor John Lynch's veto of HB648, which would have allowed the limited use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. There is a report by the UL's Tom Fahey on their site.
The Senate was the stumbling block for backers of the bill, House Bill 648. Senators voted as they did in the spring 14-10 to override, but it takes 16 Senate for a two-thirds majority.
The override move succeeded in the House, which voted 240-115 to reject the veto, over the margin it needed.
In the light of recent policy and personnel changes at the US DoJ, as well as common sense, this seems slightly lame:
Opponents said the bill needs a more specific definition of what constitutes a debilitating medical condition.
(Some of us on the site wondered whether we should just ignore this - after also concluding Hynes' story was baloney. - promoted by elwood)
I haven't been paying much attention to "NowHampshire", a phoney news web site run by GOP operative Patrick Hynes. Why would anyone believe anything Hynes puts up on the web as "news", given his career which includes a stint as a NHGOP staffer, operator of the "crushkerry.com" web site, and Republican operative? It would be like believing that Jeff Gannon was a real member of the White House press corps.
Today Hynes got caught pushing a story on nowhampshire that Raymond Buckley forced Democratic state senators to back the equality bill by telling them the DNC would strip NH of its first in the nation primary status if the bill did not pass. Hynes based his story on unnamed "Democratic State House sources", and it got picked up by a couple of national blogs. The problem was, the story is not true.
