New Hampshire: New Hampshire House

From the New Hampshire House:

A House committee today recommended that the full House agree to let certain patients grow their own marijuana if their doctor recommends they use it to relieve certain medical conditions.
The so-called medical marijuana bill, House Bill 648, passed the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee on a 13 to 7 vote after agreeing to an amendment on a 15 to 5 vote.
Among other things, the amendment restricts the number of patients one “designated caregiver” can assist to one, down from the five allowed in the original bill.

The Chairman comes out swinging and challenges Governor Do Nuthin' Lynch to be true to his word on the gas tax increase... From former New Hampshire Governor and Republican State Committee Leader John H. Sununu:

“This week the ‘tax and spend’ Democratic leadership in the New Hampshire House passed a 15-cent per gallon tax increase. This action by those Democrats illustrates Governor Lynch’s inability to get the members of his own party to follow his agenda in the Legislature.

 During his first bid for re-election in 2006, the Governor made his opposition to a gas tax increase one of centerpiece the issues of his campaign.

General David Petraeus owns a small boat house on Lake Kolelemook in Springfield, New Hampshire.

The news was first reported by New Yorker magazine but was highlighted in an article in today's Union Leader.

DENVER- House Speaker Terie Norelli (D-Portsmouth) says she is "very optimistic" about the Democrats maintaining control over the House.

"I'm feeling very optimistic about making history again in November with back-to-back Democratic victories," Norelli told PolitickerNH.com.

Norelli said the Democratic caucus is "very well positioned" to elect candidates in November.

"We're training candidates, raising money for them and they've begun campaigning door-to-door," she said.