b. By a more than two-to-one margin, New Hampshire residents supported a 2018 bill to legalize possession and home cultivation of cannabis for adults’ use. — February 27, 2018 poll, UNH Survey Center
e. House Bill 1648 would legalize cannabis possession and limited home cultivation for adults 21 and older, putting New Hampshire’s laws more nearly in line with the laws in neighboring states.
2. Cannabis is legal for adults in all neighboring jurisdictions.
a. Eleven states, including all three neighboring states, have legalized cannabis for adults’ use. Cannabis is also legal throughout Canada.
c. The governors of several northeastern states are supporting and leading efforts to end cannabis prohibition in 2020, including Ned Lamont (CT), Gina Raimondo (RI), Phil Murphy (NJ), and Andrew Cuomo (NY).
3. Opponents’ fears have not been realized.
a. According to the most comprehensive surveys, teen use has remained flat— or has decreased — in states that have legalized and regulated cannabis sales.
c. “We must allow consenting American adults to decide when and how to use cannabis, just as they have done with alcohol and tobacco – two far more dangerous substances.” — Dr. Gilbert Fanciullo, writing for the Concord Monitor
b. The Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University has been strongly criticized for the “laughable” methodology of its report alleging that legalization has imposed enormous costs on the state of Colorado. Paul Danish, writing at Boulder Weekly, described the study as “a dog’s dinner of statistical scraps that runs the gamut from misleading to dishonest, irrelevant and embarrassing.”