Concord, N.H. – One New Hampshire representative hopes this is the year the state finally decriminalizes marijuana roughly 40 years after he first sponsored a bill to do so.
Democratic Rep. Chuck Grassie of Rochester is a sponsor of a bill that would remove criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana. Grassie, who just returned to the House this year, was a sponsor on similar legislation in 1977 as a young man just out of the University of New Hampshire.
Decriminalization has passed the House many times including once in the 1970s but has historically died in the Senate. Past governors have also been unsupportive.
Notably, no members of law enforcement testified against the bill in a Wednesday House hearing.
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