Prohibition and the Wheels of Government Grind On
Channel: adventures in the free state
Date: 2010-09-22

Mostly everything in their path...

Herewith, the final "interim study" work session of the NH House Criminal Justice subcommittee addressing HB1652: "allowing purchase and use of marijuana by adults, regulating the purchase and use of marijuana, and imposing taxes on the wholesale and retail sale of marijuana" -- the "tax & regulate" bill, sponsored by my own Rep. Cal Pratt and the equally redoubtable Rep. Joel Winters, among others, from the previous session of the NH House, 9/22/2010.

Originating in the second session of the 2-year term, the original bill is now technically gone, but the committee soldiers on in an effort to craft something more, shall we say, "palatable" -- which is also, mercifully, inching toward "rational" in a drug war-crazed world -- for the next session, which begins after November's elections.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/committeedetails.aspx?code=H26
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=2617&sy=2010&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2010&txtbillnumber=HB1652&q=1
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=376852
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=376709