The New Hampshire Home of Representatives voted 169-156 final week to legalize hashish for grownup use within the state; nonetheless, the invoice would create a state-run monopoly system, the Associated Press studies. Below the plan, the state Liquor Fee would regulate the cultivation and sale of hashish in at the very least 10 shops.
The vote comes lower than three months after the Republican-controlled chamber authorised a separate measure that might legalize private possession and cultivation of hashish for adults 21-and-older. That invoice, which nonetheless requires Senate approval, would enable adults to own as much as 3/4 of an oz of hashish – which is already decriminalized in New Hampshire – and permit private cultivation of as much as six crops. The proposal handed the decrease chamber with a five-vote, veto-proof majority.
Throughout an interview final month with WCVB 5 “On the File,” Republican Gov. Chris Sununu mentioned that whereas he doesn’t assist broad hashish legalization, he known as the invoice authorised final week by lawmakers “the best way to do” legalization. He indicated that he opposed the reforms as a result of the state had simply gotten the opioid disaster below management.
Each of New Hampshire’s border states, Massachusetts and Vermont, have already legalized hashish for grownup use. Gross sales to adults started in Massachusetts in 2018 whereas Vermont’s preliminary invoice in 2018 legalized possession and use however not gross sales – a separate invoice to permit gross sales was handed by Vermont lawmakers in 2020 however gross sales have but to begin within the Inexperienced Mountain State.
Earlier efforts to legalize hashish in New Hampshire have failed because the Home has handed the reforms 3 times in 4 years however they’ve by no means been authorised by the Senate.
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