Legal Related New Mexico Panel of Doctors Wants Higher Purchase Limits for Medicinal Marijuana by Sophia Vida November 18, 2020 New Mexico medicinal cannabis patients have a group of doctors on their side wanting to help them get higher purchase limits for the drug. A panel of doctors as well as other health care professionals have recommended increasin...
Legal Related New Mexico Will Now Allow Out-of-State Medical Marijuana Patients by Sophia Vida November 13, 2020 A state district judge's ruling is going to allow hundreds of patients to be re-authorized to participate in New Mexico’s medical marijuana program. It was a mandate issued last September that was challenged leading to a subs...
Legal Related New Mexico Lawmakers Need to Do This to Head Towards Marijuana Legislation by Sophia Vida September 29, 2020 While lawmakers in the state of New Mexico are likely to push to legalize weed, there are some steps to be taken first according to Duke Rodriguez, the president and chief executive officer of Ultra Health. Speaking to a Revenu...
Legal Related New Mexico Governor Considers Legalizing Marijuana by Sophia Vida May 26, 2020 Recently the governor of New Mexico said the state needs to explore every option for economic relief and this includes passing marijuana legalization. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) was asked last week whether she was in favor...
Legal Related Medical Cannabis Bill Wins House Approval in New Mexico by Sophia Vida February 19, 2020 It may be just a matter of time now until residents of other states will not be allowed to get a medical marijuana card in New Mexico. A proposal heading to the state's Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham would prohibit out-of-state re...
Legal Related New Mexico Lawmakers Are Considering Marijuana Bill by Sophia Vida January 28, 2020 Lawmakers are now considering a democrat-backed bill to legalize recreational marijuana businesses in all towns and counties across New Mexico. The bill would subsidize medical marijuana and automatically expunge many past po...
Legal Related New Mexico Governor Wants Marijuana to Be Legal in the State this year by Sophia Vida January 17, 2020 New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling for lawmakers to legalize marijuana in the state in 2020. The democrat Governor said in the 2020 agenda that she sent to lawmakers this past Wednesday that she wants the l...
Legal Related New Mexico House Just Voted to Legalize Marijuana by Sophia Vida March 09, 2019 This week the New Mexico House took a vote to legalize recreational marijuana. The bill passed without any Republican votes and even some Democrats were against it. The bill's prime sponsor, Democratic state Rep. Javier Martinez ...
Science related (Medical) Study Finds that Medical Marijuana Reduced Opioid Use in New Mexico by Sophia Vida December 02, 2017 According to University of New Mexico researchers, medical marijuana being legally available could potentially help stop the use of opioids in chronic pain patients. Jacob Miguel Vigil, an associate psychology professor, aided ...
Legal Related New Mexico’s Health Secretary Rejects Two New Uses For Medical Marijuana by Sophia Vida June 16, 2017 New Mexico's Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations on Wednesday that could have added Alzheimer's disease and opiate dependence to the list of conditions that allow pati...