If you're wondering why SendTheRightMessage.com hasn't been active lately, it's because the New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy has been focusing all its effort on supporting HB 1623, a bill in the NH House of Representatives that would reduce penalties for marijuana possession. Our initial hearing for the bill took place Tuesday, Jan. 22, and we are now in a very good position moving forward.

 

We got some great press on Wednesday, and today we even got an endorsement from the Nashua Telegraph, a major newspaper! Click here to read more about our state-level reform efforts.

This article for Alternet.org by Drug Policy Alliance Executive Director Ethan Nadelmann is simply a must-read.

 

Nadelmann will be speaking in Nashua, New Hampshire Jan, 4 -- click here for details!

Tony Newman of the Drug Policy Alliance takes a swing at the Clinton campaign in this article for the Huffington Post.

Jacob Sullum, the Reason editor who blogged about our Mitt Romney encounter in July, has published his reaction to our "Anti-Prohibitionist Candidate Report Card," calling it "instructive."

 

He does make one criticism -- scroll down the comment thread for my response!

 

 

This article graced the editorial page of the New Hampshire Union-Leader, our state's largest newspaper. It has also received nearly 500 comments at Digg.com.

This pointed editorial from the Houston Chronicle takes a pretty good series of shots at Obama:

 

Out of humility and humanity, you'd think that the Illinois senator would use this teaching moment to say: "What we politicians call our 'youthful discretions' should not become life-destroying crimes for everyone else. Let's stop arresting drug users."

This article from Iowa's Des Moines Register makes it sound like former Senator John Edwards might be getting the message that the drug war is a failure. Could that be because he was speaking on a college campus, or is he really getting on the right side of this issue?

This town just passed three separate ballot initiatives. One legalizes medical marijuana in the town, one legalizes cultivation of industrial hemp, and one makes marijuana enforcement the lowest priority of local law enforcement.

 

I suppose we'll see what the state and federal governments will have to say about all this...

With selections from Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Allen St. Pierre, Richard Lawrence Miller, and two prohibitionists.

If you've never heard of "Pot 2.0," this article by Norml's Paul Armentano will have you rolling your eyes:

 

The feds have started issuing dire warnings about the potency of today's marijuana, calling it "Pot 2.0." Will it backfire and tempt more to toke?