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Concord, NH — The campaign in favor of letting the chronically and terminally ill legally use marijuana hit the airwaves Thursday. A 30-second commercial promoting the legislation and urging Gov. John Lynch to support it began on WMUR-TV and on Comcast cable stations.
The ad features Sandy Drew, of Allenstown, a retired nurse diagnosed with multiple [...]

CONCORD – Chronically and terminally ill patients would be able to use marijuana to ease their pain under a bill the Senate passed yesterday.
By a 14-10 vote, the Senate approved House Bill 648, which allows patients with approval from both their doctors and the state to have up to two ounces and six plants of [...]

Kent Johnston is forging onward with what could be coined his mission for medical marijuana.
The retired police officer is looking for a few recruits of his own to work toward establishing a marijuana dispensary for business in Ventura County.
“I urge the people of Ventura County to go to their city council meetings, show their faces, [...]

Medical marijuana operations are starting to resume in Kern County after recent changes made to the rules governing them.
Doug McAfee of the Bakersfield chapter of NORML, a pro-legalization group, said he knows of at least three to five groups planning to restart their operations as collectives and cooperatives.
There’s a lot that are going to be [...]

Times Online

Souter Says He Will Leave Supreme Court in JuneNew York Times - David Stout, Peter Baker, Jeff ZelenyBy DAVID STOUT WASHINGTON – Justice David H. Souter formally told the White House on Friday that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term in June, a development that stirred intense interest about who [...]

Earlier this year, a NORML-commissioned national Zogby telephone poll revealed that a record 44 percent of American voters — including nearly six out of ten adults on the west coast — now believe that cannabis should be “taxed and legally regulated like alcohol and cigarettes.”
Since then, several additional polls have confirmed that the nation’s support [...]

Over the past 24 hours, several state legislatures have taken steps to enact medical marijuana legislation or improve upon existing law. Here is a summary of this latest progress.
New Hampshire: The Senate voted 14 to 10 today in favor of HB 648, which would allow qualified patients to possess up to two ounces of cannabis [...]

Just weeks after Time’s Joe Klein declared “legalizing marijuana makes sense,” the magazine is once again extolling the virtues of liberalizing cannabis prohibition.
Writing in the Sunday edition of Time.com, author (and frequent media critic) Maia Szalavitz asks, “Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?”
Citing statistics from researcher (and frequent Salon.com blogger) Glenn Greenwald, Szalavitz reports that [...]

It’s not just members of the public and political pundits who are daring to speak the words ‘marijuana’ and ‘legalization’ in the same breath. Even in Washington, DC, calls to regulate cannabis are growing progressively louder — as today’s headline in The Hill indicates.
Webb: Pot legalization ‘on the table’ in prison reform effort
via The Hill
The [...]