The New Hampshire Home on Thursday handed an adult-use legalization invoice by a 272-109 vote, The Center Square reviews. The measure strikes subsequent to the state Senate.
New Hampshire is the lone New England state to not permit hashish gross sales to adults.
In an announcement, Republican Rep. Jason Obsorne, a co-sponsor of the laws, stated he’s “happy to see New Hampshire take a step towards relieving gangsters and thugs from management of this market” and maintain “harmful untested merchandise away from shoppers, and defending kids from dangerous age-inappropriate merchandise.”
Democratic Rep. Matt Wilhelm, who additionally co-sponsored the invoice, described the invoice’s passage as “decisive” and sending a “sturdy message that that is the 12 months to legalize adult-use hashish within the Granite State.”
“Yearly we fail to legalize marijuana, the state wastes precious assets and ruins the lives of many younger and poor Granite Staters by imposing failed prohibition. New Hampshire stays the one state in New England that has didn’t legalize hashish, whereas our neighbors profit from elevated income and their hashish customers profit from safer testing and regulation of the product. Legalization of grownup possession of small quantities of hashish is the best factor to do for New Hampshire and we should get it accomplished in 2023.” — Wilhelm, in an announcement, by way of The Middle Sq.
In January, Gov. Chris Sununu (R) advised New Hampshire Public Radio that he didn’t count on a hashish legalization invoice to make it to his desk this session. Sununu opposed the reforms. The state Senate has by no means handed an adult-use legalization invoice however the Home has handed the reforms on two earlier events.
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