Despite the broad support for changing marijuana law in the Granite State, a bill legalizing the drug has yet to make it to the governor's desk. If one did, would he sign it?
But Sununu's stance has wavered in recent months. Now he, like plenty of other people in New Hampshire, seems to think it's a matter of time for the law to change.
Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, a Democrat from Manchester, voted against the recent bill, saying that using publicly owned liquor stores to administer marijuana is “crude.” While support for marijuana legalization has historically come from Democrats and young people, Smith's February poll shows more than two thirds of independents and slightly over half of Republicans in New Hampshire were in favor of the bill legalizing marijuana sales in state-run liquor stores that was rejected by Senate in April.
With cannabis now legal in 18 states and Washington, D.C., Republicans — usually the party that opposes legalization — are gaining “a more realistic understanding of the risks and benefits of cannabis,” said Karen O’Keefe, director of state policies at the Marijuana Policy Project. He indicated he's open to considering legalizing marijuana as well, though he didn't go so far as to say he supported it.
"New Hampshire has become an island in New England with our overly burdensome regulations of cannabis that are out of sync with what the scientific health and social data says, and most importantly, with what New Hampshire voters want," Sen. Becky Whitley, D-Concord, told colleagues before the Senate vote.
For now, the status quo remains in New Hampshire. But the Senate's resistance to cannabis doesn't mean residents aren't finding ways to get their hands on it.Brendan McKee has plenty of loyal cannabis customers in New Hampshire, he says. They just don't shop there.
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