Act now: N.H. legislature voting on medical marijuana override tomorrow

Published: October 27, 2009

The New Hampshire legislature will vote tomorrow (Wednesday, October 28) on whether to override Gov. John Lynch's veto of HB 648, a bill that would give severely ill patients access to medical marijuana without fear of arrest by state law enforcement.

Your fellow Granite Staters need your help. Please call and e-mail your representatives in the House and the Senate TODAY, and ask them to vote "yes" to override the governor's veto of HB 648.

Once you've contacted your legislators, please ask everyone you know in New Hampshire to contact their legislators in support of HB 648. You can pass on this alert or ask others to visit ProtectPatients.org. Please also post the ProtectPatients.org link to your social networking sites.

New Hampshire legislators need to know that HB 648 represents compassionate, sensible, budget-neutral reform.

And coming on the heels of last week's announcement by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that the federal government will no longer prosecute medical marijuana cases in states with medical marijuana laws, this vote is now the only thing standing between New Hampshire's suffering patients and safe access to the medicine that they and their doctors know they need.

Tomorrow's vote will be very close, and it's crucial that legislators hear that their constituents want them to protect patients by enacting sensible medical marijuana reform. So please devote a little bit of time today to contacting your legislators and spreading the word.

With your help, we can make New Hampshire safe for medical marijuana patients!