Bipartisan and bicameral New Hampshire lawmakers have reached an agreement on creating a commission that will study the feasibility of legalizing marijuana through a state-run model and proposing legislation to enact the reform.
Members of a House-Senate conference committee voted on Wednesday to incorporate the cannabis commission compromise into a bill that must now be approved on the floor of both chambers by a legislative deadline of June 29.
The legislation that the committee took up initially only required a commission to study the novel state stores idea for cannabis, a model that the Republican governor recently endorsed. But it was revised in Wednesday’s conference committee meeting to include a mandate for the body to take its findings and draft a state-run legalization measure that legislators could then consider when they reconvene for the second half of the two-year session in January.
If the revised bill is passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by the governor, the commission’s work will be due December 1.
The conference committee also agreed to amend the bill to remove two commission members that had been initially proposed by the Senate—one representing the New Hampshire Cannabis Association and
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