A New Hampshire commission tasked with preparing legislation to legalize marijuana sales through a system of state-run stores held its first meeting on Friday, with members electing leaders of the panel and offering a sense of the specific policy issues they will be exploring.
The governor signed a bill to create the commission earlier last month after bipartisan and bicameral lawmakers reached an agreement to enact the incremental reform in a conference committee.
Seventeen members were selected to form the “Commission to Study with the Purpose of Proposing Legislation, State-Controlled Sale of Cannabis and Cannabis Products,” and they hold mixed records on cannabis policy. The body includes five lawmakers from the House, five members from the Senate, a governor’s designee and professionals representing banking, health, law enforcement and civil rights interests.
Sen. Daryl Abbas (R), who has sponsored state-run legalization legislation in the past, was named chairman of the commission on Friday, and pro-legalization Sen. Becky Whitley (D) was appointed as the clerk.
At the meeting, members seemed to fall into one of three “camps,” Matt Simon, an attendee who serves as director of public and government relations at Prime Alternative Treatment Centers of New Hampshire, told Marijuana Moment.
There are those who
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