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New Mexico Prepares to Overhaul Medical Marijuana Market

The state has the final say on whether to limit medical cannabis cultivation to 1,750 mature plants per producer.

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The Durango Herald
August 12, 2019

SANTA FE – A hearing officer has endorsed key provisions of a plan designed to shore up cannabis supplies to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program without flooding the expanding market, according to recommendations released on Friday.

State Health Department Secretary Kathyleen Kunkel now has the final say on whether to limit medical cannabis cultivation to 1,750 mature plants per producer. In recommendations released Friday, that production cap was endorsed by an official assigned to monitor public hearings in July.

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