New Hampshire lawmakers have now pre-filed a dozen marijuana-related bills for the 2024 legislative session, including measures to legalize the cannabis for adults, annul prior convictions, expand the list of qualifying conditions for the state’s medical program as well as increase possession limits and allow home cultivation for patients and caregivers.
Ten of the 12 bills were pre-filed in the past week, following two others—regarding home grow for patients and eating disorders as qualifying conditions, respectively—earlier this month.
The pre-filed legislation includes some proposals from members of what one lawmaker described to Marijuana Moment earlier this month as “sort of a mini therapeutic cannabis caucus.”
The group, said Rep. Wendy Thomas (D), a medical marijuana patient herself for chronic pain and as part of cancer treatment, includes fellow Democrats Reps. Suzanne Vail and Heath Howard. “We’ve sort of brainstormed ideas for bills, we’re supporting each other’s bills, we’re going to testify for each other,” she said in an interview.
Thomas is the lead sponsor of two pre-filed bills, one that would allow patients and caregivers to grow marijuana at home and keep up to eight ounces of cannabis and another that would allow health care providers to recommend marijuana for
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