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HB0356 finally

FCDobbs

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House bill 0356 is under consideration. This bill will most likely pass.
Everyone is on board this time. no Suzanna Martinez to eff it up.
Thats the good.

The bad, it looks like they are gonna require a license for personal grows. Money grab and database. Way to fuck it up New Mexico.


It looks like medical ppl cards will cost no more than half a normal ppl.


There is also a clause requiring 50% renewable energy for commercial production. Good luck with that. Costco can only cover around 30% with solar panels covering their whole roof. Not sure how a grow op could come remotely close.



Effective date would be July 1 2019.
 

aridbud

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Yes, I believe it going to pass!! Way to grow/go New Mexico!! Know dozens that have grown under the radar for decades...no change in that!
Rec dispensaries will be a prominent fixture. Ultra Health sees big expansion plan.
 

ReikoX

Knight of the BlackSvn
Hope it passes, we sure could use the $$. Not much will change for me otherwise. I'll be growing my own under the medical PPL as long as possible.
 

aridbud

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http://theleafonline.com/c/social-justice/2019/01/nm-on-the-verge-of-legalization/

House Bill 356 summary

New Mexico state legislature
• Reduce impacts of criminalization disproportionately affecting low-income people and communities of color.
• Protect access to medical cannabis by eliminating gross receipts tax for medical sales, requiring all commercial licensees to also sell medical, and creating a subsidy program for low-income patients.
• Establish employment protections for medical cannabis patients in the workforce.
• Automatically and retroactively seal certain cannabis-related criminal records.
• Allow for the possible recall or dismissal of a person’s sentence who is currently serving time behind bars for a cannabis violation that has become legal.
• Implement quality control and consumer protections to safeguard public health.
• Allow counties and cities to opt out of commercial cannabis sales.
• Prohibit retail cannabis sales to anyone under 21.
• Establish a licensing structure that favors small businesses, thus creating space for entrepreneurial efforts in rural areas as well as job opportunities for people in disproportionately impacted communities.
• Establish a 9% surtax on cannabis sales, directing millions of dollars to the local DWI grant fund for cannabis research, public education about cannabis, and community grants for workforce training, substance misuse treatment, mental health treatment, and youth drug education and prevention.
• Generate approximately $40 million in new tax revenue and create over 11,000 jobs in just the first year.
 

aridbud

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The NM MMJ program is one of the best in the country, allowing generous home grows. Just a matter of time to clean house and have state legislators PLUS a governor in favor of recreational cannabis.

Mapping out a functioning model for several years, it's going to happen.

Possession in small amounts is a ticket, if that.

For NM MMJ, Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino (D-Bernalillo) introduced SB406 to expand access to medical cannabis in New Mexico. The bill includes the recommendations from the 2018 Senate Memorial 105 Medical Cannabis Affordability and Accessibility Task Force, which was convened by the Drug Policy Alliance and included more than two dozen members from around the state.

Statement from Jessica Gelay, New Mexico Policy Manager of the Drug Policy Alliance:

“This bill will help protect against the stigma that medical cannabis patients face, and it will expand access to safe and affordable medical cannabis for all New Mexicans,” said Jessica Gelay, New Mexico Policy Manager of the Drug Policy Alliance. “Even though medical cannabis is well established and supported by a large majority of New Mexicans, there are still barriers. Patients have problems doing everyday things like getting a job, going to school, and affording their medicine.”

SB406 makes changes to the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act (LECUA) and related statutes that include:

· Adding Civil protections and protection from discrimination from employment, housing, schooling, and medical care – including receiving an organ transplant;

· Expanding list of medical qualifying conditions to include autism, substance use disorder and neurodegenerative dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease;

· Streamlining the patient registry process and allowing multi-year registration;

· Creating reciprocity for patients from other jurisdictions;

· Establishing a formal patient and caregiver advisory board that will work with state and the patient and caregiver community to develop rules for collective cultivation for 2020.

There are more than 67,500 patients in the New Mexico medical cannabis program whose quality of life is improved with access to medical cannabis, often when nothing else works.

When I was a MMJ patient in 2007, the list to get cannabis from distributors was clandestined with only a dozen production places. Now you see dispensaries in most communities.


https://www.kvia.com/news/new-mexic...ts-to-qualify-for-medical-marijuana/977006463

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she will direct health officials in her administration to begin making opioid addiction a qualifying condition for patients seeking to use medical marijuana.

The Democratic governor's pledge Tuesday came during her first State of State address, which kicks off the Legislature's 60-day session in Santa Fe.

She says the directive follows a longstanding recommendation from the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, and will come in addition to other state initiatives to address the state's opioid crisis.

She says the other plans include boosting opioid prevention programs and the availability of overdose-reversal drugs like Narcan.

She said cracking down on prescribers and pharmaceutical companies that avert the law would help address the distribution of opioids in New Mexico, in addition to a compassionate approach to addressing addiction.

Factoid (Wiki): In February 1978 New Mexico was the first state to pass legislation that recognized the medical value of marijuana.[2] Representative David Salman was the main sponsor of the 1978 Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act (or Lynn Pierson Act), which allowed the medical use of marijuana.[3] The act was to legalize the use of the drug to relieve pain and suffering from debilitating illnesses.[4] The House Judiciary voted 9-1 to recommend passage of bill.
 
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