Posted on 04/12/2021 10:03:30 AM PDT by BeauBo
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was set Monday to sign legislation that will legalize recreational marijuana use and sales in the state, making it the seventh since last November to do so...
The governor called a special legislative session to tackle the issue in late March after legalization efforts faltered.
Legislators rallied behind a legalization framework from state Rep. Javier Martinez of Albuquerque that provides automated procedures for expunging past pot convictions.
The bill gives the governor a strong hand in oversight of recreational marijuana through her appointed superintendent of the Regulation and Licensing Department.
Regulators can put a cap on marijuana cultivation quantities and impose a per-plant state fee of up to $50 a year.
Some of the state’s medical marijuana producers lobbied for market controls amid concerns that marijuana prices might plummet with the legalization of recreational marijuana, undermining investments and employment.
People age 21 and over will be allowed to buy and possess up to 2 ounces (28 grams) of marijuana outside their homes.
Home marijuana growers will be allowed to grow up to six plants per person, or 12 per household. The scent of marijuana will no longer be grounds for police seizures.
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For your interest.
Good news for Santa Fe.
Legalized racketeering. Now pot dealers think like Pharma CEOs.
Why bother?doesn’t Biden give evey illegal a dump truck full of pot when they are transported to luxury hotels?
Keeping us high so they can keep on going low.
Who wants to bet this doesn’t seep into Texas?
Great.
/sarc
More poverty, more stupidity.....
Whenever marijuana is legalized, corporations get involved. And when corporations get involved, politicians line up for their cut. The governor is not doing this because she thinks it’s the right thing, she is doing it for the money.
How will they toke up with their masks on?
“Who wants to bet this doesn’t seep into Texas?”
Decriminalization is working through the legislature this very week.
Texas Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Bill In Committee (April 9, 2021 By Kyle Jaeger)
“How will they toke up with their masks on?”
I think Fauci will approve removing masks for recreational drug use.
He was famously OK with folks assuming the COVID risk from anonymous gay sex hookups. At least folks can maintain a six foot separation while smoking.
These people really do not care what happens to the children, do they?
In addition to the recent (and rather sudden) legalizations in New Mexico, New York and Virgina; four other States might legalize this year: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota and Delaware.
Beware this is a way to disarm people.
I must really be getting old. When I was in school, 28 grams was one ounce.
Metabolites of THC stay in the body for up to a month. The presence of these metabolites in urine can be used to convict on OWI in many states. Recreational users crossing state lines beware.
“Beware this is a way to disarm people.”
That risk should be highlighted.
Federal firearms laws, and the form to purchase a gun, still call out marijuana use as something that bars individuals from buying/owning guns - no matter what individual States may say about marijuana.
I wonder if the Biden Administration is going to change that, by de-listing marijuana from being a Schedule 1 drug? They may want to keep it as an election issue, as it has long served them.
Right now, the administration is busy plundering the Treasury, and trying to rig the system to consolidate power (election “reform”, open borders, Court Packing, etc.). They also need to pay back the Chinese communists by installing their agents throughout our Government, and pulling support from our allies around the World - so very busy.
Maybe later this year they might re-Schedule marijuana. Maybe they are saving it for when they need a distraction.
“Whenever marijuana is legalized, corporations get involved. And when corporations get involved, politicians line up for their cut. The governor is not doing this because she thinks it’s the right thing, she is doing it for the money.”
But it’s the right thing nonetheless.
Sickening.
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