Amid pandemic, New Mexico forges path to legal cannabis

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Amid pandemic, New Mexico forges path to legal cannabis

State legislators determined to pass bill opening market for recreational marijuana
Store manager Ruby Amsden, left, attends to medical marijuana customer and retired nurse Jan Stewart, who uses cannabis to relieve pain associated with her recovery from bone cancer and help with sleeping, in 2019 at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe. New Mexico legislators are working to come up with a framework for regulating and taxing recreational marijuana after voters ousted key opponents of pot legalization in 2020 elections.
Medical marijuana flowers await customers at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe. New Mexico legislators are working to come up with a framework for regulating and taxing recreational marijuana.
The leaves of a marijuana plant inside Ultra Health’s cultivation greenhouse in Bernalillo, N.M.

Amid pandemic, New Mexico forges path to legal cannabis

Store manager Ruby Amsden, left, attends to medical marijuana customer and retired nurse Jan Stewart, who uses cannabis to relieve pain associated with her recovery from bone cancer and help with sleeping, in 2019 at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe. New Mexico legislators are working to come up with a framework for regulating and taxing recreational marijuana after voters ousted key opponents of pot legalization in 2020 elections.
Medical marijuana flowers await customers at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe. New Mexico legislators are working to come up with a framework for regulating and taxing recreational marijuana.
The leaves of a marijuana plant inside Ultra Health’s cultivation greenhouse in Bernalillo, N.M.
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