A New Hampshire Democratic candidate for governor says the state should legalize marijuana and stop adding revenue to the coffers of its neighbors that have enacted the reform.
“We do need an additional revenue source, and there’s one sitting right out there: the legalization of cannabis,” Cinde Warmington, the sole Democrat running for her party’s nomination to challenge incumbent Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R), said at a town hall event on Wednesday.
“There is no reason why the citizens of New Hampshire should be driving across state borders to pay taxes to Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine to purchase a product that they obviously have stated that they want to have access to in our state,” she said. “We need to get that done.”
Ayotte, who is up for reelection as governor this year, opposes marijuana legalization and recently vetoed legislation to allow businesses in the state’s existing medical cannabis program to cultivate in greenhouses.
Her veto was overridden by lawmakers last month, however, and now the medical marijuana cultivation measure has become law despite her objections.
In June, Warmington criticized Ayotte’s veto of the medical marijuana proposal.
“Come on, Kelly. Shouldn’t we be trying to make health care more affordable for
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