Full House vote on H.B. 442, New Hampshire’s medical marijuana bill, expected any day!

Published: March 14, 2011

E-mail your representative in support of patients

After receiving an “ought to pass” report from the Republican-controlled House Health, Human Services, & Elderly Affairs Committee, 14-3, H.B. 442, comprehensive and compassionate medical marijuana legislation, is likely to get a vote before the full House any day now, maybe even tomorrow! 

Please, make sure that you ask your representative to support medical marijuana bill, H.B. 442 before the vote! Your representatives need to hear from you before they vote, especially because many of them are new.

Thank you to everyone who testified at the March 1 hearing. The sponsor, cancer survivor Rep. Evalyn Merrick (D-Lancaster), also sponsored a 2009 bill that strongly passed both chambers before Gov. Lynch vetoed it.

H.B. 442 would protect qualified patients and caregivers possessing state-issued registry identification cards and no more than two ounces of medical marijuana from arrest. It would also allow the state to license up to three not-for-profit alternative treatment centers to dispense marijuana less than eight months after passage.