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A New Mexico medical cannabis patient is challenging state rules for medical cannabis purchase limits. Jason Barker, a medical cannabis patient and advocate, filed a request in Santa Fe’s First Judicial District Court earlier this month, asking a judge to compel the state’s Medical Cannabis Program and Cannabis Control Division to allow medical cannabis patients […]
May 5, 2021 Two New Mexico state agencies confirmed on Wednesday in a letter that medical cannabis purchase limits will not increase, as it was previously suggested last month by a group of medical cannabis producers. Related: In an official response to the group of five medical cannabis producers, New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Tracie Collins and state Regulation and Licensing Department Superintendent Linda Trujillo wrote that until commercial cannabis sales begin next year medical cannabis patients’ purchases will be limited to roughly eight ounces of cannabis in a rolling ...
April 30, 2021 The head of the department tasked with regulating recreational-use cannabis in New Mexico said medical cannabis patients should not expect purchase limits to be expanded, despite a letter from a group of New Mexico medical cannabis producers suggesting otherwise. Last week, during an interview for the collaborative podcast Growing Forward, New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department Superintendent Linda Trujillo said until commercial cannabis sales begin next April, medical cannabis patients will still be limited to 230 units in a rolling 90-day period. The Medical Canna...
Created: May 03, 2021 04:59 PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —As regulators get New Mexico’s recreational cannabis program off the ground, state officials will also have to consider another aspect of legalization—consumption areas. “June 29th it absolutely, the law goes into effect. And at that point, it's legal for someone 21 and older in New Mexico to possess the legal amounts of cannabis,” said Linda Trujillo, the superintendent for the regulation and licensing department. While it will be legal to smoke cannabis, Trujillo said there won’t be any public area where people can con...
6 hours ago New Mexico medical cannabis producers that intend to continue doing business after commercial cannabis sales begin next year will not be required to renew their license this summer, according to state officials. The state’s Department of Health and the Regulation and Licensing Department said in a letter that current medical cannabis producers can forgo the relicensing process that normally takes place during the summer months and wait to submit a request for licensure through Regulation and Licensing. The grace period for current producers is part of a transition of cannabi...