House lawmakers in New Hampshire passed a marijuana annulment and resentencing bill on Thursday, on the heels of new comments from Gov. Chris Sununu (R) about a marijuana legalization bill headed for a key vote next week.
The annulment legislation, HB 1539 from Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D), passed the House of Representatives in a bipartisan 283-80 vote. If it becomes law, it would create an automatic annulment process for all cannabis possession violations and misdemeanors for which sentences are complete, and people incarcerated for cannabis-related crimes would be automatically resentenced.
Annulments for broader cannabis-related offenses, meanwhile, would be available through a petition process once an individual has completed their sentence.
Advocates at the Marijuana Policy Project, which backs the measure, said in an email to supporters that the bill “would set a new bar for cannabis justice, and create a state-initiated process to erase life-altering records and release cannabis prisoners.”
Meanwhile, regarding marijuana legalization, Gov. Chris Sununu (R) told reporters this week he hasn’t moved “too too much” from where he stood on the issue last year, when he sent a list of must-have provisions to a state commission charged with crafting a bill to enact the reform. Some members
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