A New Hampshire House committee plans to move forward with a bill to legalize marijuana–even though members accept that it is unlikely to advance beyond the chamber given opposition in the Senate and the threat of a veto by the governor.
“We know where it’s going to go. Let’s send a virtue signal,” the sponsor of the legalization proposal, Rep. Jared Sullivan (D), said during a House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday. “Let them be the ones that are pissing off voters who care about this.”
The committee chairman, Rep. John Hunt (R), initially put forward what he called a “brilliant idea to solve this problem” that he wanted to explore, amending the legislation to make it so only cannabis beverages with up to 5mg of THC could be sold through the state’s government-run liquor stores.
“We would be treating it just like alcohol in terms of our regulatory authority, so we’re not giving any special privilege to anybody to have that on that marketplace,” he said.
The chairman argued that restricting sales to canned beverages could mitigate one of the chief complaints from opponents regarding their concerns about the smell of marijuana flower.
“But knowing full
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