Smoking in the boy’s room is getting a little harder at Albuquerque, New Mexico’s La Cueva High School, where administrators are taking drastic measures to make sure students aren’t getting high with every millennial’s favorite oral fixation, vaporizers. According to …
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New Study Finds Legal Cannabis Equals Fewer Pharmaceuticals
“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …
Read More »Federal Marijuana Trafficking Arrests Have Been Dropping Steadily Since 2012 – News
A new report from the United States Sentencing Commission, a government agency responsible for promoting judicial transparency and reduce sentencing disparities, says that marijuana trafficking arrests have dropped significantly in the years since recreational legalization started taking hold across America. …
Read More »Trinidad, Colorado sued after enacting pot club moratorium
Published: Aug 3, 2017, 7:57 am • Updated: Aug 3, 2017, 12:05 pm By Bruce Kennedy, The Cannabist Staff Colorado’s cannabis industry may be centered in metro Denver, but there’s plenty of action around the state’s edges. Towns like Sedgwick, …
Read More »McDonald’s Billboard and Our Marijuana Reality
Recreational marijuana use may still be illegal in New Mexico but that hasn’t stopped one clever McDonald’s franchise from strategically placing an intriguing billboard near the Colorado / New Mexico border. Pandering to the soon-to-be famished road warriors headed for …
Read More »New Mexico Medical Marijuana Program Has Grown to 40,000 Patients – News
New Mexico's medical marijuana program has seen significant growth in the decade since its inception in 2007. Since the beginning of the year, around 8,000 New Mexico residents have registered for the program, and the total number of MMJ patients in the state now tops 40,000, an increase of 84% since March of 2016.
The total number of dispensaries in the state has also increased to 56, up from 36 last January.
Congress blocks feds from interfering with state marijuana laws
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A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans recently hashed out a $1 trillion budget for government spending, but none of which will be used to crack down on legal pot.
A new government funding bill will block the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana companies operating in legal states, reports the Orange County Register.
The budget’s full text of the marijuana provision is as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States
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Read More »Dramatic Changes to New Mexico’s MMJ Program Need One Signature
Passed by the New Mexico legislature last Friday, a new bill could make dramatic changes to the state’s medical marijuana law. Allowing for the inclusion of opioid addiction as a qualifying condition for NM’s MMJ program, Gov. Susan Martinez might soon make history with one simple signature.
In addition to adding reciprocity and opioid addiction to the list of qualifying conditions, HB 527 would protect New Mexico’s lawful MMJ participants from interference by Child Protective Services.