New Mexico recently legalized marijuana and already five of the state’s medical cannabis cultivators are now requesting that regulators more than triple plant-count limits immediately to avert a supply shortage this summer.
This request comes also from the state’s largest operator, UltraHealth, and came in a letter to state officials this week, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
It was earlier this month that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an adult-use legalization measure into law. Recreational marijuana sales aren’t expected to start until April 2022.
The new law would strengthen the state’s medical cannabis program and, according to the five growers, would allow medical marijuana patients to purchase larger
quantities of marijuana starting on June 29th.
In the letter, growers argue that the current plant-count limit of 1,750 mature plants per cultivator isn’t enough to supply medical marijuana patients and will lead consumers to the illicit market or other states.
The growers want the figure to be more than tripled to 5,500 and suggest they might file legal action if their request isn’t met.
A spokesperson for the state health department told the Journal that regulators are reviewing the letter.
The letter was signed by UltraHealth, as well as Sacred Garden, Kure, Budding Hope and G&G Genetics, according to the newspaper.
