To Sen. Jack Barnes: Would your opposition to medical marijuana include withholding pain relief from your loved ones or just mine? Have you or a loved one ever had acute, un-relievable pain?

If I'm in pain and I don't have medical insurance and so fall through the treatment cracks to the extent that I can't get morphine or morphine doesn't help, would it be okay if I had a shot or two of vodka? Or would alcoholic self-medicating impugn New Hampshire's reputation as a sane and safe state?

Michael Stamm

Concord

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