The New Hampshire House of Representatives has approved a bill to allow medical marijuana patients to grow their own plants for personal use.
Weeks after moving through committee, the full chamber passed the legislation from Rep. Wendy Thomas (D) on a voice vote as part of the uncontested consent calendar on Wednesday.
The measure—which would allow patients and designated caregivers to cultivate up to three mature plants, three immature plants and 12 seedlings—now heads to the Senate.
Plants would have to be grown in an “enclosed, locked space” at a location that would have to be reported to regulators at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
The bill would also expand the number and types of plants that the state’s medical cannabis dispensaries could cultivate for patients, increasing the limit per patient to 80 mature plants, 160 immature plants and an unlimited number of seedlings. As it stands, the cap is 80 plants and 160 seedlings.
“This bill addresses two major problems for this community—access and price,” the majority report on the measure from the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee says. “The closest Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) may be far away and the cost of this product
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