Marijuana Policy

Instead, the commission will issue a 37-page report that will lay out a potential model for legalization. But it won’t recommend that it become law.

New Hampshire is the lone New England state where adult-use marijuana is illegal.

Using intentional programs and policy decisions, other states are trying to empower people to cash in on the same commodity that entangled them in the criminal justice system.

This latest plan was tailored to satisfy Gov. Chris Sununu, who now says he could support legalization this year.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the state Senate rejected the latest bipartisan legalization proposal.

Marijuana policy update: The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 272 to 109 to pass a bill to legalize and tax cannabis.

The latest plan to legalize marijuana in New Hampshire has strong support in the House but faces an uphill climb beyond that.

"We should learn from the nicotine space, and I certainly would advocate that we should place similar concern on cannabis products in terms of their appealability to youth," said Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University who has written extensively about the rise in marijuana use among young people.

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Few people are prosecuted federally for marijuana possession, but criminal defense attorneys and advocates hope the announcement could fuel more state-level reforms.