Things are looking good for a medical marijuana bill introduced in the New Hampshire legislature.
The Concord Monitor reports:
In advance of a hearing this week on a bill to legalize medical marijuana, a UNH-WMUR poll shows that 79 percent of New Hampshire adults support allowing doctors to recommend marijuana for patients suffering from serious illnesses. [emphasis added]
This year’s bill, H.B. 573, is similar to a medical marijuana measure that passed last year with bipartisan support. Unfortunately, it was vetoed by then-governor John Lynch. The recent election of Gov. Maggie Hassan, however, bodes well for the future of the latest bill. According to a report from the Associated Press earlier this month:
Four years ago when she was a state senator, Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan voted to override one of the vetoes, which legalized the use of marijuana with a doctor’s prescription. She still supports tightly controlled, medicinal use of marijuana, spokesman Marc Goldberg said.
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A bill will reach Hassan, House Democratic Leader Steve Shurtleff of Concord believes.
i sure hope it passes. marijuana is a miracle plant and it is ridicules that it’s illegal! it’s a tragedy in my eyes that this natural plant grows so easy and so well and can do so much but yet we can’t take advantage of it. keep up the good work MPP!
I will be testifying tomorrow with my service dog. I am exited too!
I suffer from a very horrible debilitating desease called Trigeminal Neuralgia. I have also been a chronic pain sufferer with my back after a bad accident back in 1999. I have had 3 back surgerys an the pain is unless. A friend reccomended marijuana to jtry. It has been a God sent. It needs to be legalized for serious causes like this an others.
my back hurts so bad I had five back surgerys the pain so bad i cant deal with it with a lots of pain pill where i cant it in okla here its not Legallized marijuana that is so if it was I be happy
I suffer from degenerative disc disease in my spine both my neck and lower back,also I have degenerative arthritis in shoulders,hips and my knees. So far I have had sixteen operations on my body,and again will begin steroid shots to my neck and lower lumbar. I now take medicines for chronic pain,morphine,hydrocodone . Also I am taking anti-depressions, sleep medicine,and still feel no better. Five total knee replacements,and the pain keeps getting worse! Please help me and the other people who would get some medical marijuana here in Florida. It seems to be the last state to want to help us!!! Thank you for listening! Dennis
I hope govt will pass this bill and marijuana is really helpful it cures lots of disease.