New Mexico sales of regulated recreational and medical marijuana totaled $40.2 million in January. Data from the state cannabis regulator shows that the monthly total includes roughly $26.5 million in adult-use sales and $13.8 million in medical marijuana sales. New Mexico had 585 total sales outlets as of January, according to the Cannabis Control Division of the New Mexico … [Read more...] about Marijuana sales in New Mexico total $40.2 million in January
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Courts argue for changes to cannabis crime expungement
ALBUQUERQUE — Jonathan Thibodeau was sitting in an Arizona prison in 2012. But his path there wasn't hard to follow. “I’ve been getting in trouble with marijuana since 1999,” he said. His road to a vastly different future has led him here, to the intersection of Central Avenue and San Mateo Boulevard in one of the roughest parts of Albuquerque. Thibodeau, 42, still marvels … [Read more...] about Courts argue for changes to cannabis crime expungement
Portrait of a social equity cannabis partnership
ALBUQUERQUE — Mary Jean Garcia and her business partners sold their cars and personal belongings, dipped into savings and emptied retirement accounts to open La Tiendita de Motita, a cannabis dispensary in Albuquerque’s South Valley, the rough-and-tumble neighborhood they grew up in. The former Albuquerque teacher, along with three of the four other women, quit their jobs as … [Read more...] about Portrait of a social equity cannabis partnership
