Farmers, dispensaries rush to prepare for legal recreational marijuana sales in New Mexico
SANTA FE – Cannabis might be legal to grow and smoke in New Mexico, but you can’t buy the plant for recreational use in the Land of Enchantment just yet.
“The sales are not going to be able to go live in January,” said Superintendent Linda Trujillo, the secretary of Regulation and Licensing in New Mexico. “I can tell you that.”
When the state voted to legalize the drug recreationally this year, lawmakers tasked Trujillo with establishing a brand-new system to license the sales of cannabis by April 1, 2022.
“I knew that cannabis would be legal this year just as much as the rest of us knew the pandemic was coming,” Trujillo admitted. “To implement cannabis was not on my radar at all.”
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If Trujillo's staff got high they would be able to complete the job more rapidly. 