A miracle from Heaven is about to become the answer to a Portsmouth politician's prayers. Eliot, Maine, is soon to open a medical marijuana clinic.

It is accepted that marijuana provides relief for pain and nausea. And there have certainly been enough of both in the current budget season.

Councilor Ken Smith has to be in excruciating pain from all the contortions he has gone through trying to slide out from under the promise he made to bring in a budget decrease. Yes, councilor, that would be a budget that is actually smaller than the prior year's. We have to admit that it was painful to hear him try to shift responsibility for the city budget to the state Legislature. After listening to him, we may find it necessary to slip across the river ourselves. No, wait, we have no idea what to do with a joint, or if it's even still called that.

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