The New Hampshire House on Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a Senate version of cannabis legalization that was just one step away from Gov. Chris Sununu's desk.
The bill is now headed for more negotiations, but it appears to be facing increasingly long odds.
Progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans balked at the extensive changes made to HB 1633, though longtime state Rep. John Hunt, R-Rindge, warned pro-cannabis lawmakers they were walking into a trap.
"That's the whole point of what the Senate did," Hunt said. "The Senate made this bill the ugliest, the most government-intrusive, the most over-regulated cannabis statute they could amend at, the midnight hour, for one singular purpose: for you to vote no."
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