First the good news:
CONCORD (AP) — Lawmakers will vote Wednesday whether to override Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a bill that would make New Hampshire the 14th state to legalize marijuana use by severely ill people.
Supporters are optimistic they have the two-thirds vote needed for an override in the House, but are less confident the votes are there in the Senate.
Then the bad news:
If the veto is overridden, the bill would establish three nonprofit “compassion centers” to dispense 2 ounces of marijuana every 10 days to severely ill patients whose doctors approve the drug’s use. The state would license the centers and issue identification cards to their staff, approved patients and their caregivers.
Why is that “bad news”? No right to grow your own medicine, a three-center monopoly on medical marijuana, a ridiculous limit of two ounces every ten days, and if you have chronic pain, you must have tried other drugs for three months and found no relief from them before you can smoke the herb. But, to be fair, that’s not bad news if you desperately need medical marijuana, it’s only bad news from the perspective of medical marijuana bills getting more and more restrictive as time goes on.
There is a lot to like about the bill, however, like protections for organ transplant candidates and reciprocity for other states’ medical marijuana patients. So I hope they do manage to override the veto, and then work to improve the law once patients begin to point out these flaws.
Topics: New Hampshire, NH Gov. John Lynch, NH HB648
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