Top New Hampshire Lawmakers Outline Marijuana Legalization Plan, While Committee Advances Home Grow For Patients
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Top New Hampshire lawmakers on Monday gave an overview of the path to enact a marijuana legalization bill this session, days after a House panel advanced a separate medical cannabis home cultivation measure last week. The House already approved a legalization bill from Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R) and Minority Leader Matthew Wilhelm (D) late last month. But it was then sent to the Ways & Means Committee for consideration before it can be transmitted to the Senate. In a committee hearing on Monday, Osborne described the types of compromises that have gone into HB 639 so far in order to improve its chances of moving through the Senate, where broad cannabis reform has consistently stalled in recent sessions even as the House has repeatedly passed legalization bills.

“I’m sure you know that the House routinely passes some kind of bill like this every year and the other body routinely shuts it down,” the majority leader said. “We’d like to get this done all at once, once and for all.” He said that including a home grow option for recreational consumers or language providing a pathway annul past convictions would have been a “deal-killer” in the Senate, so those were intentionally omitted. “That’s a topic that can be left for another day,” Osborne said. Another major change made to the legislation from its introduced form, which the sponsor talked about in Ways & Means, would put the state’s existing Liquor Commission in charge of regulating the marijuana market, rather than create a new independent commission to do so. The body would also be renamed the Liquor and Cannabis Commission. Members of the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Liquor Subcommittee had spent weeks working the proposal over a series of meetings, going back and forth about a variety of provisions…

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