Governor vetoes, news at 11.

I don't think it will get past the senate.

Drove to Mass just today to pickup. 11:30 am on a Wednesday (are you employed Mr Lebowski?) the line was like 15 people deep and they are desperate trying to just keep the line moving. Interesting development theystopped taking debit cards from credit unions.

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Just keep letting people go across the border and let MA get the tax money. Idiots.

If it passes the governor and senate, I'll eat my shoe. Plus, it can't even *happen* until federal legalization, since they wanna own it.

Too little too late.

The bill does not put pot in state stores, it put the liquor commission in charge of regulating cultivation distribution and sales.

Oh fair. Ok. I'll reread. I figured they wanted to do liquor store style things with it, and do state run sales only.

Man, that’d be a crazy case of the munchies. You should just order Taco Bell instead

Hahaha. Right!?

Honestly, NH should just sell it in the liquor stores and tell the DEA to fuck off if they try to do anything. I'm assuming marijuana prohibition is justified by "The Interstate Commerce Clause™" specifically the Wickard v Filburn ruling which is shit by any sane understanding of English, so it should be forced back into the courts.

I work in Mass, so it's easy to just hit a nearby store on the way back. If I had to pick between the current situation and one where marijuana is legal in NH but NH is basically Mass, I choose the current situation - that is to say marijuana being illegal in NH is dumb, but not a showstopper. Fortunately, I think NH can make marijuana fully legal without becoming northern Mass.

It depends.

The prime sponsor of last year's MJ bill that passed the House and got killed in the Senate is now in the Senate. A lot of those old senators are gone. There is still that ancient dude from Manchester in there who came out firmly against it last year. Lou Dala..something. Also Sharon Carson's worthless ass.

IMO there might be enough new blood in the Senate.

I think that it’s good that this one will not pass. Home growing is illegal and cannabis is expensive. Wait till new governor comes in then send a bill that actually helps the people.

Depending on when it hits governors desk, he could be in favor of it or veto it.

It all depends on what phase of his presidential run he's at and if he's trying to pander to the moderate crowd, the MAGA crowd, the dems, the libertarians etc etc lmao

That's not a bad take. We're surely in for a dem governor next.

20% tax is tough. I’m curious what it’d be up there.

No silly NH is owned by pill lobby

Maybe 15%. Realistically you want to keep NH to buying in NH and maybe try to sway border MA residents to come over. I think 15% is good but we'll see when it happens in 10 years.

The last two Dem governors opposed cannabis legalization. Many of those in the Senate who oppose legalization are Dems. The issue consistently gets majority support of both Republicans and Democrats in the House. This really isn't a partisan issue in NH. Also, the whispers I hear is that Sununu will sign it if it gets to his desk (he wants to be prez and is pushing the "liberty governor" angle) but he doesn't want to take the risk of going on record supporting it as long as the Senate protects him from having to. Senate remains the roadblock here, but there's reason to believe this year the mix will be more favorable. We'll see.

Can't wait for the mids to flood in from curaleaf, sanctuary medicinal, temescal and other garbage out of state MSOs.

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