New Hampshire House lawmakers are taking up a bill that could be used as a vehicle to legalize marijuana through a quasi hybridized state-run and privately licensed market—though there is significant confusion about the details of the proposed legalization amendment, which some advocates originally characterized as an effective compromise but now see as potentially unworkable.
The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee voted to reconsider SB98—a bill on the unrelated subject of alcohol license payments—on Tuesday and then discussed Chairman John Hunt’s (R) legalization amendment, which which members will vote on during an executive session next week.
This follows the Republican governor’s recent policy pivot to back ending prohibition under a state-run model and the Senate voting last week to create a study commission to examine potential legalization models.
This month, the Senate also rejected a marijuana legalization bill sponsored by bipartisan House leadership and tabled a separate non-commercial legalization proposal, both of which had cleared the full House.
The question before the panel on Tuesday largely came down to timing: Should the House move ahead with the state-run legalization amendment to an unrelated bill and potentially enact the reform this year, or should it retain yet another standalone legalization
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