New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Monday launched two obvious non-negotiables to any adult-use hashish framework within the state: a 15-store cap and a ban on lobbying and political contributions by any hashish licensee, the New Hampshire Bulletin stories. The calls for got here because the state fee learning a state-run mannequin – just like the state’s liquor mannequin – was getting ready to wrap up its duties.
David Mara, Sununu’s adviser on dependancy and behavioral well being, advised the Bulletin that the administration is “adamant about that quantity, 15” as they “don’t need to see a proliferation of what’s occurring in different states.”
“The fear right here is that we don’t need to create a giant tobacco ambiance right here in New Hampshire. We don’t need it to be the place some huge cash is being thrown round.” — Mara to the Bulletin
Initially, the fee had mentioned capping the variety of adult-use dispensaries to the variety of liquor shops within the state, of which there are 67.
Final April, the state Home permitted an adult-use legalization invoice however the Senate voted down the laws the next month as Sununu pushed again on the reforms, stating that he would favor a state management mannequin.
Mara stated that sooner or later lawmakers may change the variety of shops relying on “how issues progress.”
A consultant from Sununu’s workplace advised the Bulletin that “The governor is open to discussing a franchisee-based system, however the success of such a mannequin is within the particulars. The governor has been clear that any system meet his outlined framework – or be met with a veto.”
Sununu has usually opposed broad hashish legalization within the state however stated in Might that the reforms are “most likely inevitable not directly or type.” He stated the state-run mannequin would supply an “superb software to manage location, to manage the place it’s, to manage the way it’s marketed, the way it’s distributed, retaining it away from youngsters.” He added that he needs to keep away from what he describes because the “Marijuana Miles” in Massachusetts and Maine, which he says are stretches of “pot store, after pot store, after pot store” which “utterly adjustments the material of the city.”
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