New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE - UNM is launching a new online course dedicated to navigating New Mexico’s cannabis rules and regulations. “There’s a funny joke in the cannabis industry that people think they’re in the cannabis business, but they’re actually in the compliance business,” said Max Simon. Simon is the

The New Mexico judicial branch wants legislators to change the cannabis law that automatically expunges prior marijuana criminal charges. The state Supreme Court says the burden of reviewing all the states records in search of cannabis offenses is too much for staffers to handle and wants to leave

LAS CRUCES - The Las Cruces City Council voted against removing the 300 foot buffer between a cannabis shops and residential areas. The City’s Community Development Department clarified that the council is not voting on the distance between childcare or schools to cannabis shops and they are not

A group of local businessmen plan to run a marijuana growing site in Chaves County, having received a special use permit from the Roswell-Chaves County Extraterritorial Zoning Commission Tuesday night. The citizens' group voted 4-1 for the initial 10-year term for the permit during its meeting at

ALBUQUERQUE - The New Mexico State Fair often introduces something new that will catch the attention of fair-goers. This year is no exception, they are introducing the first ever cannabis exhibit. “Discovering Cannabis” will only be open to people 21 and up. “There’s no consumption, we’re not having

The state has hit a milestone in the approval and issuing of cannabis licenses, surpassing 1,000 since the Cannabis Control Division began issuing them last fall. To date, 1,027 total licenses have been approved and issued. Those numbers were shared by the division on Tuesday in a presentation to

New Mexico has approved more than 1,000 licenses for businesses to manufacture, produce, test and sell cannabis in the first year-plus of the new industry. The vast majority of those who hold a controlling interest in those businesses — 70 percent — are men, and 67 percent report they are white