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N.H.: Legalization bill heads to Senate floor!

Apr 14, 2022

cannabis possession, comments, committee, federal law, HB 1598, HB 629, hearing, home cultivation, legal sales, legalization, New Hampshire, NH, Plan B, preemption, Rep. Daryl Abbas, Senate floor, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Ways and Means Committee, state-run cannabis monopoly, state-run stores

Great news! For the first time ever, legalization has passed a New Hampshire Senate committee and is headed to the Senate floor! This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed HB 629 in a 3-2 vote. HB 629 already passed the House and is now headed to the full Senate.
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N.H.: Poison pill legalization bill heads back to the House floor

Mar 28, 2022

amendments, conflict, cultivation, edibles, federal law, HB 1598, HB 629, House floor, legalization, New Hampshire, NH, Plan B, poison pill, possession, preemption, recriminalization, state-run monopoly, state-run stores, Ways & Means Committee, workable bills

Last week, New Hampshire’s bill to legalize cannabis possession for adults and create a state-run monopoly narrowly passed out of the Ways & Means Committee (12-10). Now, it’s headed to the House floor again. While the committee made some amendments to the bill, it did not address our biggest concerns — HB 1598 would continue to re-criminalize edibles, and it doesn’t even include a Plan B in the likely event that state-run stores fail to get up and running.
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