Prime Republican and Democrat lawmakers within the New Hampshire Home of Representatives are teaming up on a invoice to legalize hashish possession and gross sales, in keeping with a New Hampshire Public Radio report.
The nonetheless unreleased bipartisan proposal is predicted to comprise legalization of the private possession and sharing of as much as 4 ounces of hashish by adults aged 21 or older, and would open the door to regulated retail gross sales with a tax fee of 8.5%, the report mentioned. The proposal would additionally permit for the house cultivation of as much as six hashish vegetation and confirms the power of adults to own “the hashish produced by these vegetation at residence.”
Home Majority Chief Jason Osborne (R) advised the invoice was trustworthy to the need of voters:
“The Home has lengthy stood united find a pathway to getting this completed for Granite Staters. With a bit of luck, the Senate will come round to supporting the need of the overwhelming majority of New Hampshire residents.” — Home Majority Chief Jason Osborne
New Hampshire’s at the moment ongoing prohibition of hashish makes the state an outlier in New England, the place most neighboring states have formally adopted some type of hashish legalization.
Home Democratic Chief Matt Wilhelm mentioned that legalizing and regulating hashish would result in safer merchandise and would assist to raised shield shoppers. “Legalization of grownup possession of small quantities of hashish is the correct factor to do for New Hampshire and we should get it completed in 2023,” Wilhelm mentioned within the report.
However whereas supported by each events within the Home, the legalization proposal faces obstacles within the Senate — which already voted down a Home-approved legalization proposal earlier this yr — and in Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who mentioned in March he doesn’t assume it’s the proper time to legalize hashish within the state as a result of ongoing opioid disaster.
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