Finally! Some pushback from our ostensible “representatives”! Seriously, I can’t recall anything like this kind of pressure put on the forces of evil by a NH legislative committee in the years I’ve been following this issue. Or any statist-friendly issue, for that matter. Wow… Once again, medical marijuana rears its fearsomely compassionate head in the NH legislature. This time, starting in the Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee. Perhaps needless to say, SB409, “relative to the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes,” yet again exposes the barbaric tendencies of the vicious autocrats of the state (can you believe Chief Crate’s professed faith in DC …?!?) for what they are. Doesn’t seem to deter ’em, though, does it? No self-awareness… Simply stated (as, to be sure, I have before in these chronicles), presuming the authority to somehow deny natural pain relief to peaceful people who are suffering is barbaric. There is simply no accurate yet appropriately genteel euphemism. Deal with it. Government has no justification for making peaceful lives more difficult. Ever. The time of the authoritarian drug warrior must end. Now. He doesn’t own you, he works for you. We must start with the atrocities committed daily against those who are suffering. Civil liberties, human rights and self-ownership must be restored. Government as servant, not master. Legislature as representatives of the People rather than of the vested interests of the (equally servant, just btw …