The Republican governor of New Hampshire has reaffirmed that he’d sign a bill to legalize marijuana, despite his personal reservations about the policy change, as long as it contained provisions including state control over the market.
Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said during an interview with WMUR that while there may be “some flexibility” with respect to part of his proposal that would ban cannabis businesses from lobbying the legislature, he remains committed to having a state-run model that he says would minimize potential harms.
“I don’t love the idea of legalizing cannabis here. I really don’t,” he said. “But knowing that it is probably inevitable, there’s a responsibility to getting the system right. Other states around us have got their systems very wrong.”
“I think we have an opportunity to really set a model here that works: limited stores, away from kids and schools, controlling the marketing aspects, not letting this free-for-all happen that you see in other states that have just made a mess,” Sununu said. “So if [lawmakers] stay in the guidelines, and they do this—while I don’t love it, boy, we could set ourselves up for a good, long-term sustainable system with minimal impacts to kids, and
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