On April 14th New Hampshire’s medical marijuana bill, HB 442, will have a hearing in the Senate at 1:00 pm. The legislation has already been approved by the House Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Committee and passed a vote by the full House (221-96) on March 16th.
Kirk McNeil, the volunteer Executive Director of New Hampshire Compassion (which is a special project under New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy) and had this to say about the upcoming hearing:
“I’m very excited about the senate hearing coming up in just a few days. We have a lot of senate support. One of the concerns that a lot of legislators have previously expressed was that it might have been a backdoor legalization bill, but it’s not. It is very much a medical marijuana bill. The bill focuses on the sickest patients and provides some controls to enable them to not worry.”
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