NH House Committee Jovially Continues Prohibition
Channel: adventures in the free state
Date: 2012-02-24

The NH House Criminal Justice Committee conducts "Executive Sessions" (where they vote on their recommendations to the full House), 2/21 and 2/23/2012, on 4 marijuana-related bills recently addressed in public hearings: HB1526, "decriminalizing possession of less than one ounce of marijuana;" and HB1527, "exempting cultivation of marijuana from manufacturing under the controlled drug act" (at 25:50 in the accompanying video), HB1615, "relative to industrial hemp" (41:35); and HB1705-FN-A, "allowing purchase and use of marijuana by adults, regulating the purchase and use of marijuana, and imposing taxes on the wholesale and retail sale of marijuana (55:00). Search this channel for the bill numbers to find video from those hearings.

But remember, this is the same CJ Committee whose marijuana hearings I began recording FOUR YEARS AGO. Yet the word "cannabis" had to be defined for them AS RECENTLY AS LAST MONTH (in the hearing videos referenced above -- can't recall which one just now: look for educator Bob Constantine). So it would seem rational that even THEY ought to acknowledge that they're not gonna learn anything new with further study, wouldn't it?

The transparent, disdainful disrespect for basic guaranteed liberty and purposefully limited government consistently exhibited by this committee never ceases to amaze, confound and sicken your humble chronicler. Why do obsequious police-state authoritarians like Rep. Berube or Rep. Pantelakos have more control over your body than you do? Are you comfortable with that? Just something to think about...