New Hampshire senators took up a bill to legalize marijuana in the state on Thursday.
The Senate Judiciary Committee did not vote on the legislation, but members heard testimony both in support of and against the measure.
If enacted into law, SB485 would allow adults over the age of 21 to legally possess up to four ounces of cannabis in plant form and 20 grams of concentrated cannabis products, as well as other products containing no more than 2,000 milligrams of THC.
“New Hampshire is now the only state in New England that has not legalized and regulated cannabis. Every single one of our neighbors has figured this out,” Sen. Donovan Fenton (D), the bill’s lead sponsor told the panel. “Meanwhile, we’re still pretending prohibition is working, while people just drive to Massachusetts, Maine or Vermont legally and bring it back home.”
He called President Donald Trump’s recent federal marijuana rescheduling executive order a “clear signal that even the federal government now recognizes what most Granite Staters already know: Cannabis is not the same category as the most dangerous drugs, and it should be handled with smart and regulated adult approach.”
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