at this point i’m just going to keep going to Mass once it’s legal in NH just out of spite.

Ill beleive it once it actually happens and weed is legally available for purchase in the state.

Unfortunately, the compromises here make it so that I'm almost of the mind that it is going in the wrong direction.

• No home grow provision.

• Only 15 licenses which will probably be granted to politically connected people and leaves no incentives whatsoever for them to offer competitive pricing or product innovation

• State control over those 15 further reducing innovation

• A very hefty tax that will probably make it still cheaper to get out of state or on the black market

• Additional money for enforcement to crack down on people who are home growing instead of purchasing prepared products from the 15 licensees.

• increased penalties for public consumption (I don't particularly care for public consumption, but don't see it has any worse than cigarette smoke)

I would like to say that anything is better than nothing, but as it stands this is going to create a very strict regulatory environment which is going to screw over the Cannabis economy in New Hampshire for decades to come while probably leading to more crackdowns and jail time for people who are growing it themselves.

This almost strikes me as coming up with the most strict implementation possible to get ahead of rescheduling. In other words, this seems like an attempt to kill the potential new market that everyone knows is coming under the pretense of legalization.