New Hampshire House votes to legalize recreational marijuana

Medible review new hampshire house votes to legalize recreational marijuana
Medible review new hampshire house votes to legalize recreational marijuana

Less than two months after a legalization was blocked in the New Hampshire House, the body approved a bill Tuesday that would legalize recreational use of marijuana.

The House voted 207-139 in favor on a bill that would legalize the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and would create a regulatory system for cultivating, transporting, selling and taxing the drug.

A majority of the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee had recommended the bill be killed because a commission created last year to study the issue won’t make its recommendations until November. Last November, that committee voted not to recommend a legalization bill to the House.

The state had passed laws in 2013 legalizing medical marijuana and in 2017 decriminalizing adult-use marijuana.

This story is developing and will be updated.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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