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.
Representatives of both DOH and RLD confirmed that both agencies agree that medical cannabis purchase limits will continue to be determined by DOH.
While the new law will limit how much cannabis a person can possess outside of their home, a person could theoretically purchase the current limit for medical cannabis patients in four trips to the same dispensary.
“Anything beyond what the department determines, the Department of Health determines, as adequate supply would be commercial cannabis,” Trujillo said.
It’s still unclear whether DOH or RLD will officially respond to the letter from the five producers or whether DOH will increase medical cannabis patient purchase limits.
President and CEO of Ultra Health Duke Rodriguez told NM Political Report that he is still convinced that the Cannabis Regulation Act allows current medical cannabis patients to purchase up to two ounces at a time, with no limit on the number of transactions in a day.
“The key here is the importance of getting this absolutely right,” Rodriguez said in a text to NM Political Report.
The federal government has been paying for the empty bed spaces at these facilities, almost all run by privately-owned companies, which the ACLU called “wasting” taxpayer money.
Growing Forward, the collaborative podcast between NM Political Report and New Mexico PBS, spoke with New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday about adult-use cannabis in New Mexico and some of the specifics that go along with its legalization.
Those violations included failure to notify the state of what type of equipment was used for manufacturing, failing to use a “closed” extraction system and for “lifting an open extraction vessel containing an ethanol-based solution in the immediate vicinity of an active heater plate,” which ultimately caused the explosion, according to an investigation by the state.
In an official determination signed by DOH Secretary Tracie Collins on Monday, the department officially revoked the license for medical cannabis producer New Mexicann based on findings from a hearing officer earlier this year.
A bill that looks innocuous – requiring massage parlor establishments to be licensed – could have big consequences.
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.
The New Mexico Department of Health has officially revoked the license to grow and manufacture medical cannabis from a Santa Fe-based company that experienced an explosion last year, resulting in injuries.
Citing $1 million a day of wasted federal dollars, the American Civil Liberties Union called on President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday to close 39 U.S.