New Hampshire legislators fail to protect medical marijuana patients

Published: April 24, 2003

New Hampshire legislators could have acted to protect medical marijuana patients this session. They chose not to. With the deadline to introduce bills in the legislature long past, New Hampshire's medical marijuana patients will continue to face criminal penalties for using their medicine.

In the face of overwhelming public support for medical marijuana—80 percent nationwide, according to the latest Time/CNN poll—New Hampshire legislators have stayed mute. The only victims are the state's seriously ill medical marijuana patients.

We must protect these individuals from criminal penalties. Please urge your legislators to introduce a medical marijuana bill next session: Only you can convince them that this issue is important to New Hampshire residents.

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Members of the New Hampshire General Court must be convinced to protect the state's seriously ill patients who need marijuana as their medicine.

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