A New Hampshire legislative subcommittee has approved a number of changes to a proposal that would legalize adult-use marijuana in the state, with the full House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee set to vote on the amended bill on Wednesday.
It’s the latest development in what’s already been a months-long process of negotiating and adjusting core provisions of cannabis legalization as lawmakers attempt to build consensus on a bill to send to Gov. Chris Sununu (R).
“We’re all working from the governor’s list of what would be needed in a bill,” Rep. Erica Layon (R), the sponsor of HB 1633, said at Tuesday’s subcommittee meeting. Among those prerequisites, which Sununu’s office circulated late last year, are a limit of 15 stores statewide, government control over retail outlets and a ban on lobbying and political donations by licensees.
“Reading through the governor’s list, he seems very strong on the 15 while also being pretty strong that the whole point of this is harm reduction, not profits,” Layon said, “and to make sure that the illicit market is a lot less attractive, because unfortunately, we have people in our state dying because they’re buying cannabis on the street that’s been contaminated with
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