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The Republican governor of New Hampshire has signed a bill that will create a commission tasked with preparing legislation to legalize marijuana through a system of state-run stores<\/a>\u2014a novel regulatory model that he backed this year after concluding that legalization is \u201cinevitable\u201d in the state despite his broader concerns with the policy.<\/p>\n This comes about two months after bicameral and bipartisan lawmakers reached\u00a0an agreement on the incremental commission legislation<\/a> in a conference committee.<\/p>\n The\u00a0bill that the conference committee took up<\/a> initially only required a commission to study the novel state stores idea for cannabis, which Gov. Chris Sununu (R) only recently endorsed<\/a> after historically opposing cannabis legalization.<\/p>\n But it was amended prior to final passage to include a mandate for the body to take its findings and draft a state-run legalization measure that legislators can consider when they reconvene for the second half of the two-year session in January. The commission\u2019s work will be due December 1.<\/p>\n \u201cNew Hampshire has an opportunity to safely regulate the sale of marijuana with a model few others can provide,\u201d Sununu said<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cBy establishing a commission to study state-controlled sales, this bill will bring stakeholders from across New Hampshire together to ensure that preventing negative impacts upon kids remains our number one priority.\u201d<\/p>\n House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee Chairman John Hunt (R), who served as a conferee, has worked extensively on marijuana reform issues this year\u2014including recent efforts to reach a compromise on legislation to enact legalization this year through a multi-tiered system that would include state-controlled shops, dual licensing for existing medical cannabis dispensaries and businesses privately licensed to individuals by state agencies.<\/p>\n Hunt\u2019s panel\u00a0reached an impasse on the complex legislation<\/a>, which was being considered following Sununu\u2019s surprise announcement that he backs state-run legalization and after the Senate\u00a0defeated a more conventional, House-passed legalization bill<\/a>\u00a0from the chamber\u2019s bipartisan leadership.<\/p>\n While Sununu doesn\u2019t seem to have any doubts that his legalization proposal would sail through the legislature, recent history raises some questions about Senate lawmakers\u2019 appetite for the kind of reform he\u2019s promoting.<\/p>\n A bill to enact a state-run marijuana program did pass the New Hampshire House last year\u2014but it was unanimously defeated in the Senate.<\/p>\n \u2014 Meanwhile, the underlying legislation that the governor signed into law with the legalization study commission provisions would also remove an existing requirement that pain patients try opioid-based treatments first before receiving a medical cannabis recommendation for their condition.<\/p>\n It also includes provisions to clarify that the state\u2019s hemp law is not intended to authorize the sale of hemp-derived intoxicating products, such as delta-8 THC.<\/p>\n In May, the House separately defeated a different marijuana legalization amendment that was being proposed as part of a Medicaid expansion bill.<\/p>\n Also, the Senate moved to table another piece of legislation that month that would have allowed patients and designated caregivers to cultivate up to three mature plants, three immature plants and 12 seedlings for personal therapeutic use.<\/p>\n After the Senate rejected reform bills in 2022, the House included legalization language as an amendment to separate criminal justice-related legislation\u2014but\u00a0that was also struck down in the opposite chamber<\/a>.<\/p>\n DeSantis-Approved Florida Law Bans \u2018Recreational\u2019 Marijuana Ads While Instituting More Industry Worker Restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n The post New Hampshire Governor Signs Bill Creating Marijuana Legalization Commission To Prepare State-Run Sales Model<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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