New Hampshire Lawmakers Weigh Medical Marijuana Expansion Bills Amid Recreational Legalization Debate [Video]

While uncertainty remains around how New Hampshire’s Senate will receive a House-passed measure to legalize adult-use cannabis, lawmakers separately took up a batch of bills this week that would make changes to the state’s existing medical marijuana system.

Among them are proposals to allow patients to grow marijuana at home, expand qualifying conditions for the state’s therapeutic cannabis program and permit any doctor who can prescribe other drugs to humans to also recommend marijuana.

None of the six bills heard this week were acted upon in committee, with House and Senate panels instead taking testimony and leaving action for a later date. Each measure has already been approved by its full originating chamber and is now being considered by the opposite body.

On Thursday, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee heard comments on four cannabis related bills:

HB 1278

Sponsored by Rep. Wendy Thomas (D), who is also a cancer survivor and medical marijuana patient, HB 1278would allow doctors to recommend marijuana for any condition they …