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New Hampshire’s medical marijuana law went into effect in July 2013. Between January and November 2014, officials with the Therapeutic Cannabis Program, under the direction of the state Department of Health and Human Services, drafted and enacted administrative rules governing the medical marijuana registry and the rules governing the treatment centers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Advocacy groups have poured millions of dollars into legalizing both recreational and medical marijuana in states across the country.
One of the most powerful and influential groups – Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project – was behind successful recreational measures in Alaska and Colorado.
The Tor relay that allows anonymous Internet surfing is scheduled to be turned back on Wednesday morning at the Kilton Public Library after a temporary hiatus caused by an email from the Department of Homeland Security. The library board of trustees in Lebanon decided Tuesday night a vote wasn’t necessary, but all agreed at a meeting to turn Tor back on. Kilton was the first public library in the nation to participate in the Library Freedom Project hosting Tor. “The trustees are continuing to work with the Library Freedom Project and Tor will be turned back on tomorrow,” Sean Fleming, the director of Lebanon Public Libraries, said Tuesday after the meeting. Tor has not yet been installed on computers used by the public at the library, but will most likely be in the future, he said.
The former Secretary of State had received about $1.2 million from the education industry as of June 30 out of a total fundraising haul of $47.5 million, making educators her fifth-largest donor. (No. 1? Lawyers and law firms, with $4.6 million.)
The Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, N.H., was first in the nation to help Internet users around the world surf anonymously using Tor until the Department of Homeland Security raised a red flag. The library allowed Tor users around the world to bounce their Internet traffic through the library, thus masking users’ locations.
The library board of trustees will vote on whether to turn the service back on at its meeting on Sept. 15.
China’s estimated 650 million Internet users don’t have access to Facebook, Twitter or a number of media websites. They can, however, build profiles and contacts on LinkedIn, thanks to that company’s willingness to comply with Chinese censorship rules. Communication with the Chinese government is crucial to keeping LinkedIn’s path around the Great Firewall to that nation’s huge market open. And if that contact is at the very highest levels, so much the better — and reason enough for Reid Hoffman, CEO of the professional networking company, to have appreciated his invitation to last Friday’s White House state dinner for the Chinese president. As an American business leader with interests in China, Hoffman was a logical pick to attend the fete.
Is medical marijuana the first baby step toward legalizing recreational use in New Hampshire as supporters would like?