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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 11, 2013 at 12:10am

Comment by Alan Perlman on May 8, 2013 at 8:02pm

Hi Bobbie and welcome to A/N!  I have been an atheist and NORML supporter my whole adult life.  I agree that you have to "live as if."  I made that decision a long time ago, and it's worked out well.

Comment by Bobbi Cadence on May 8, 2013 at 7:58pm

Hi there! I am new to Atheistnexus, and I am not online much.

I am also on FB, Ravelry, and I have a wordpress-blog.
http://Unitesense.wordpress.com
I do not consider myself a "weak" Atheist simply because I am NOT 100% Sure that God-Gods-Goddess Exist or not. I simply say I don't know, but I live my life according to the "natural laws" of this planet, NOT the bible written thousands of years ago when people "knew" the earth was flat.

Comment by Alan Perlman on March 14, 2013 at 6:49pm

If you can imagine slow, sarcastic applause..that is my response to NH's (motto: "Live Free or Die") meager medical marijuana bill.  Tight control. You have to be dying to get it.  I guess a lot of people are at death's door in Colorado and Washington.

Here's the letter I sent to the Keene Sentinel.  They didn't print it, probably because they've already published me twice on this subject.

 

Feb. 24, 2013

 

Dear Editor:

 

I read, with clenched teeth and an aching heart, of yet another re-enactment of the marijuana debate in this land of live free or die (“A division remains – Medical marijuana gets House hearing,” Sentinel, Feb. 22, 2013). 

 

I have lived here for two years, and all I can say to you opposing legislators and regulators and naysayers is: What is WRONG with you people?  Eighteen states have allowed the medical use of marijuana, and two have outright legalized it.  There has been no rise in the death toll from marijuana, which is currently zero. 

 

And still you stage the same grotesque little drama.  The suffering, the wasting-away, the dying, the people in such pain that nothing else works – they attend your hearings, they appear before you in their misery, and instead of compassion, they hear the same heartless arguments:

 

-- “It has to go through the FDA.”  No, I would humbly argue, it does not.  That process is for new drugs (and even then, thousands die each year from prescription meds).  The medical benefits of marijuana have been validated by millennia of experience.  If it did not relieve suffering, do you think it would for so long have been such an integral part of the pharmacopoeia (including use, in the 19^th century, as a treatment for “wedding night jitters”)?

 

--“There are current legal drugs available.”  No, there is unfortunately no substitute for nature’s very complex mix of chemicals.  I wish everyone who says this would contract a horrible disease from which only marijuana provides relief.  How dare you tell people they must suffer or be criminals?

 

-- “We need tight regulation and very limited use.”  Oh, please.  Two states have LEGALIZED it. New Hampshire should be a leader in this area.  Or does the state motto apply only to firearms?  Why are you opponents so worried about adults feeling better by consuming cannabis at their own discretion, as with the currently approved intoxicants?  Just add another room to the state liquor stores; it’s no big deal.  As erstwhile activist Dennis Peron said, “All marijuana use is medical.”  He’s right: it does a better job than many drugs, from painkillers to anti-emetics to anti-depressants.

 

-- “It’s still illegal at the federal level.”  So what?  That didn’t stop Colorado and Washington.  The politicians in DC are followers, not leaders.  The same thing happened with alcohol prohibition: it ended after a few important and courageous states led the way. 

 

Is New Hampshire really the land of live free or die?  Now would be a good time to show it.

 

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 14, 2013 at 2:55pm

Comment by Napoleon Bonaparte on February 24, 2013 at 9:17pm

La Société Elle à Mauvaise Haleine - Marie Jeanne

Comment by Alan Perlman on January 16, 2013 at 10:56am

Hey, everybody, we're going to have medical mj in NH this year!  (The last New England state to have it.  "Live Free or Die" -- what BS!)

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on January 16, 2013 at 3:48am

...yeah well.. fundamentalist life or whatever cult crap is the gateway to stupid and annoying as mosquitoes by canal!

Comment by Secular Forces 2013 on January 14, 2013 at 1:42am

Vice channel on youtube is the heaviest stuff I've seen .. 
http://youtu.be/Y8vaRVwF0xA
the gamut wow!

Comment by Kosak Grabovsky on December 8, 2012 at 4:22am

Well said TNT666. Always hated the idea of "gateway drugs". The biggest problem that ive always had with that idea is while people who take harder drugs start on pot(and tobacco and alcohol), most people who take pot never take another drugs.

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