For the several hundred medical marijuana patients in Taos County, what used to be the onerous task of getting their prescription just got easier.
NewMexiCann Natural Medicine, a licensed producer and distributor of medical marijuana, opened a Taos pharmacy Friday (Feb. 13). The store is the second location for the company that opened the “first functional medical marijuana pharmacy” in Santa Fe in 2009, according to Roni Stephenson, the Taos store’s general manager.
Taos was without a marijuana pharmacy for six years of the medical marijuana program, which is administered through the New Mexico Department of Health. That left patients in the far northern part of the state fewer options to get their medicine – they could become licensed to grow marijuana themselves, get it from Santa Fe or off the black market.
