Bill > HB1231

This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. The key provisions include: - Allowing qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis at their residence, subject to certain requirements like a locked and enclosed cultivation location and a canopy size limit. - Defining "mature cannabis plant," "immature cannabis plant," and "seedling" for the purposes of the law. - Providing protections for qualifying patients, designated caregivers, and laboratories that test cannabis from arrest, prosecution, or penalty for activities related to the therapeutic use of cannabis. - Setting limits on the amount of cannabis that qualifying patients, designated caregivers, and alternative treatment centers can possess and cultivate. - Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a confidential registry of qualifying patients and designated caregivers, and allowing the department to disclose certain information to law enforcement under certain circumstances. - Establishing an affirmative defense for certain individuals charged with cannabis-related offenses. - Allowing the department to revoke a qualifying patient's or designated caregiver's permission to cultivate cannabis for violations of the law. The bill is intended to provide a legal framework for the therapeutic use of cannabis in New Hampshire.