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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham wants lawmakers to consider it seriously when the next session opens in January.

The bill has stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, and it doesn’t appear that the chair of the panel plans to give it a hearing.

New Mexico would become the first US state to set up its own government-run cannabis stores and subsidize medical cannabis for the poor under a bipartisan bill.

Under the House-approved bill, adult-use cannabis stores would open for business as soon as July 2020. Will Senate Democrats stand in the way?

Instead of jail time and a criminal penalty fee, police would issue a $25 fine for possession of under an ounce of cannabis.

Late last night, the city council voted 5-4 to decriminalize. The measure now awaits the mayor’s signature.

The change would make cannabis possession without a medical marijuana referral a citable offense in Albuquerque that can come with a $25 ticket but no jail time.

Opioid use disorder (OUD) kills 500 residents every year. But New Mexico’s health secretary refuses to add it as a medical cannabis qualifying condition.

The bill is remarkably comprehensive, but don’t get your hopes up just yet—even the bill’s supporters acknowledge it’s unlikely to pass this year.

Democratic Sen. Joseph Cervantes of Las Cruces introduced a bill that would provide a purely monetary penalty for low-level marijuana violations. The changes would free up resource for courts, prosecutors and defense attorneys.