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New Mexico Department of Health’s medical cannabis regulations overturned by judge

Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial • February 15, 2021

A New Mexico district judge has ruled that directives written by the state Department of Health regarding medical cannabis program oversight were not evidence-backed and therefore must be rewritten. According...

Leading New Mexico medical cannabis operator sues DOH to increase plant-count limits

Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial • January 29, 2021

Ultra Health, the largest vertically-integrated medical cannabis operator in the United States and one of the state's main providers of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis, is pushing against plant restrictions. The...

New Mexico’s list of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis is growing, so is patient count

In order to keep up with patient demand ahead of the surge in new applicants, the NMDOH initiated an Emergency Rule on March 1 that went into effect immediately

Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial • June 27, 2019

The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) has updated its list of qualifying conditions for medical cannabis; six new conditions have been added bringing the total to 28. Included on the list is opioid...

New Mexico’s medical cannabis program doubles in size, but plant cultivation remains restricted

With patient enrollment figures predicted to swell by 183 percent over the next three years, the seven percent increase in New Mexico’s medical cannabis program is rather worrying

Bethan Rose Jenkins, Cannabis News Writer/Editorial • September 5, 2018

New Mexico is branching out to provide its residents with a high standard of medical care, but the state is struggling to produce enough weed to serve all of its medical cannabis patients. At the beginning...