A New Hampshire commission charged with drafting a bill to legalize cannabis sales through a system of state-run stores by the end of this month met again on Friday, making slow progress through a line-by-line review of sample legislation that the panel is using as a reference point.
The committee made it through about a page and a half of the 37-page document during Friday’s meeting, flagging a number of items as “homework assignments” for individual members of the panel to research and return to at another meeting. Among those issues were personal possession limits, penalties for smoking or vaping cannabis in public, whether adults could gift cannabis to one another, and whether unhoused people should count as “residents” under the bill’s definitions section.
All told, since taking up the reference bill at their last meeting, members have reviewed little more than six pages of the document, which was distributed by the commission’s chair, Sen. Daryl Abbas (R). Staff for Abbas told Marijuana Moment last month that the draft measure is “extremely fluid, and nothing is official by any means.”
Much like the last time the panel convened, members made very few formal changes to Abbas’s draft legislation during the meeting itself. Instead, when the discussion became contentious, or the panel was unsure of a provision’s meaning, individual members were tasked with incorporating feedback into updated provisions by the body’s next meeting, set for Thursday.
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