HB75

Its criminal to keep a plant given by God to Humanity illegal.

The tax revenue from cannabis sales could be used to fund obligations such as education whose costs are being pushed off more and more to cities and towns, causing property taxes to increase. Anyone who wants pot in NH can easily drive over every mile of our border into an area where it is legal to purchase. Why not bring that tax revenue back to NH?

New Hampshire currently lives in two realities. One is the old guard thinking that current laws prevent residents who desire to consume cannabis from doing so is one. The reality of truth is that we now have three markets that serve the state. The illicit market, the medical industry and the legal dispensaries on all our borders. New Hampshire currently has defacto cannabis legalization yet we choose to gain no benefit from a regulated and taxed industry. Legalizing possession will end the practice of making victims of residents due to our refusal to acknowledge the reality that cannabis is here, it is accessible and its use is growing and preferred to alcohol in younger generations.

It’s time for residents of New Hampshire to be able to be able to partake in the use of marijuana like the residents across every border we have. Additionally, the state could use the increased tax revenue to offset set the amount of push down budgeting it does to municipalities. The state has to have a balanced budget by law, instead of shuffling the additional taxation responsibility on cities and towns the state could reap the benefit of increased tax revenue from the sale of marijuana to level adults over the age of 21.

I fully support this bill as legalizing cannabis not only represents a step toward a more sensible and fair approach to drug policy, but it also offers significant benefits for public health, the economy, and criminal justice reform. It will create a safer, more just, and economically vibrant society. It allows for the regulation of cannabis products to ensure safety, promotes economic growth, and addresses systemic inequities in our criminal justice system. It also upholds the rights of individuals to make personal choices about their health and well-being. I strongly encourage you to support this important legislation. By legalizing cannabis, we can not only improve public health and safety but also promote social justice and economic opportunity. Thank you for your time and consideration.

[Art.] 2. [Natural Rights.] All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights among which are, the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting, property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by this state on account of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. June 2, 1784, Amended 1974 adding sentence to prohibit discrimination. [Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual's right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent. December 5, 2018 [Art.] 4. [Rights of Conscience Unalienable.] Among the natural rights, some are, in their very nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience. [Art.] 5. [Religious Freedom Recognized.] Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession, sentiments, or persuasion; provided he doth not disturb the public peace or disturb others in their religious worship. June 2, 1784 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -Declaration of Independence My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. – George Washington Give me liberty or give me death. -Patrick Henry An unjust law, is no law at all. -St. Aquinas, Martin Luther, & MLK Jr. Any law that which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. -Maximilien Robespierre It’s the duty of everyone to defend and promote religious freedom. -Pope Francis One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. -MLK Jr. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. -Thomas Jefferson An unjust law itself is a species of violence; arrest for its breach is more so. – Ghandi Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless and corrupt. -Ghandi When a law is unjust, it is only right to disobey. -Ghandi Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. -Henry David Thoreau Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them? – Henry David Thoreau Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. James 1:22-25 — A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom. There can be no doubt. This is no little matter. It must be confronted and defeated. — Jeff Sessions Laws protecting religious freedom and conscience rights are just empty words on paper if they aren’t enforced. No one should be forced to choose between helping sick people and living by one’s deepest moral or religious convictions, and the new division will help guarantee that victims of unlawful discrimination find justice. For too long, governments big and small have treated conscience claims with hostility instead of protection, but change is coming and it begins here and now. — Office of Civil Rights Director Roger Seravino President Trump promised the American people that his administration would vigorously uphold the rights of conscience and religious freedom. That promise is being kept today. Enforcing these statutes, some of which have been on the books for decades and some of which have lain largely dormant will expand and complement the already excellent work that Office of Civil Rights does protecting all Americans civil rights. Fundamentally, protecting the rights of Americans of faith, living up to our constitutional obligations is about building a nation of tolerance and that is a goal that matters deeply to all of us. When faithful Americans are bullied out of the public square and out of public service, when bigotry is allowed to flourish we all lose as individuals, as communities, and as a country. — Acting HHS Secretary Hargan It is enshrined in our own constitution in the first amendment that we have no established religion, but neither do we impede anyone’s religious practice. There is free exercise. The free exercise of religions seems to be misunderstood by some. It’s not the ability to have a religion and practice it in your place of worship. It’s the ability to be able to have a faith and live your faith wherever you are. If you have a faith and can only practice it in your certain place of worship you don’t have real religious freedom, you have allowance to be able to go to where you want to go when the government chooses for you to go there. That’s not who we are. We are a nation that says have your faith practice your faith wherever you are, in any location that you exist. I believe there is not a flood of new cases of religious intolerance. I think this is an opportunity for people to be able to say “this has existed for a while and I felt no one was listening. Now someone’s listening and I want to be able to express I have been biased against.” It’s a reasonable thing for a nation to be able to reach back to them and to say let’s find out, and where its wrong let’s fix an injustice. It’s the basic function of government to speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves and to settle the issue of injustice for all people. — Oklahoma Senator James Langford The federal government should never pursue to define the matters of the church, it should never pretend to dictate, define, contradict, or contravene religious belief. This is not the governments business, but rather it is the right and responsibility of the church and of the American people. Furthermore and just as important, the government should never presume to prohibit any citizens free expression of their faith. In other words, religion is not merely some secondary matter regulated to ones private life, but rather it is a public priority of personal values and corporate morals and something that all faithful people live out on a daily basis in the market square of life. This is not the government’s business said James Madison. The government should leave the church alone and never presume to tell people what to believe, or how to or how not to practice their faith. A Conscience and Religious Freedom Division should not be necessary, all of government should be that division, but at a time when our courts believe that they have the right to redefine a very Sacrament of the church we need this commission, we need this division, and I am grateful for it. —Dr. Everett Piper President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University Our understanding and defense of religious liberty comes from recognizing its important role as the core of our first amendment freedoms, as the critical buffer between the state and the individual. It is the expression of our founders acknowledgement and respect for human dignity and the essential and undeniable right to conscience free from government intrusion. — Montse Alverado Executive Director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty

It is asinine that in the "live free or die"state we are surrounded by states with more freedoms when it comes to what people are allowed to do in the privacy of their own homes.

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