As lawmakers in New Hampshire work to reconcile different versions of bills passed by the House and Senate this session, one conference committee on Wednesday agreed to move forward with a plan to reduce penalties for psilocybin possession while a separate panel rejected a proposal to allow medical marijuana patients to grow cannabis at home.
Both proposals had support from House lawmakers, but—with the exception of the newly advancing psilocybin provision—the Senate has broadly stood in the way of drug reform measures.
Regarding psilocybin, members of a bicameral conference committee voted to advance a compromise version of SB 14, which contains both mandatory minimum sentences around fentanyl as well as the lower penalty for possessing the psychedelic.
As passed by the Senate, the bill would have established mandatory minimum sentences for certain fentanyl offenses. But a House committee last month added language to reduce the penalty for psilocybin, making it a misdemeanor rather than a felony to possess up to 3/4 of an ounce of the psychedelic—at least on the first offense.
One member of the conference committee, Sen. Daryl Abbas (R), emphasized that the reform would apply to first psilocybin possession offenses only.
“Any subsequent offense after the first
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