The Cannabis Regulation Act, which Lujan Grisham signed earlier this month, won’t go into effect until June 29 and sales won’t start until April 2022.
One of the qualifications to be on that committee is to not be associated with an existing business in the medical cannabis industry.
“We want some distance from an industry that we have to have an objective oversight role with.
And while the state prepares for a recreational-use cannabis market, the state’s Taxation and Revenue Department is preparing for a state supreme court case involving medical cannabis sales and gross receipts taxes.
“Maybe I shouldn’t even say that, but my way of thinking, we will be an almost completely green and turquoise state by the end of May at the latest,” Human Services Department Secretary Dr.
Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday signed two bills that, together, legalize the use and possession of cannabis and expunge previous cannabis related criminal records.
The letter from the medical cannabis producers said that even after the law goes into effect, a lack of new promulgated rules could result in increased medical sales, which, the producers argued, could also mean a shortage of medical cannabis for existing patients.
The New Mexico state Senate will likely start the official push for full cannabis legalization as late as next week, according to the top member of Democratic leadership.
“Legalized adult-use cannabis is going to change the way we think about New Mexico for the better – our workforce, our economy, our future.
One idea, which she said she co-opted from her communications director, is some sort of fusion of cannabis and chile.