Pubdate: Sat, 16 Jul 2011
Source: Telegraph, The (Nashua, NH)
Copyright: 2011 Telegraph Publishing Company
Contact:  http://www.nashuatelegraph.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/885
Author: Donald Wright

MEDICAL MARIJUANA NEEDED FOR PATIENTS LIVING IN PAIN

I am writing this in the hopes that I can get some folks to 
understand more about a bill that was passed by the N.H. House this 
past spring by a margin of 221-96. House Bill 442 would allow 
seriously ill patients access to medical cannabis.

I am in favor of this bill for several reasons. The right of a 
patient to unfettered and unrestricted access to the prescriptive 
advice from their physician is an "unalienable" right. My wife has 
endured 17 years of treatments for breast cancer and currently is 
undergoing a therapy that causes her to be constantly nauseous. Her 
doctor would prescribe cannabis for her as a viable and well-known 
cure for the side effects of chemotherapy if allowed. The quality of 
life for people in pain or with serious illness is a freedom that 
cannot be measured and should be the basis for considering this bill. 
It can mean the difference between life and death or a life to a 
patient that cannot withstand the regimens of treatments for terminal 
or serious ailments. For others, it can mean relief from pain caused 
by permanent disabilities. For all of us, it means that our trust in 
our physician's advice is not regulated by the state or federal governments.

HB 442 medical marijuana is the strictest bill brought forth in any 
of the states that have passed similar legislation and would pass any 
reasonable person's legitimate test.

Please send a message to your N.H. senator asking them to vote on 
this bill by signing my petition at Change.org and search for NH HB 442.

Donald Wright

Tuftonboro
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