New Mexico
Carlsbad remains in New Mexico’s top 10 in cannabis sales despite dip
The Metropolis of Carlsbad remained No. 8 in hashish gross sales throughout Could regardless of a slight drop in gross sales, based on the Hashish Management Division of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Division.
Grownup-use hashish gross sales started April 1 in New Mexico after the New Mexico Legislature handed the Hashish Regulation Act in 2021. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the laws simply after lawmakers handed it.
Carlsbad had $1.1 million in mixed medical and grownup use hashish gross sales in April, per information from the Hashish Management Division (CCD).
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Mixed gross sales dropped to $1 million in Could in Carlsbad as medical and grownup use figures dropped from the opening month.
Gross sales throughout New Mexico dipped from April to Could, based on a information launch from CCD.
Gross sales through the opening month was $40 million in April and in Could mixed gross sales fell to $39 million, the information launch said.
“These gross sales figures depict a gentle tempo that we anticipated when adult-use hashish was legalized,” stated CCD Director Kristen Thomas within the information launch.
“Our workers continues to work diligently to make sure candidates transfer by our licensing course of effectively, and guarantee licensees function inside a secure, accessible, and efficient regulated market” she stated.
Matt Kennicott of the Weeds hashish consulting agency in Albuquerque stated regardless of the gross sales drop in Carlsbad and the State. Curiosity for hashish remained highly effective.
“Carlsbad being within the top-10 for gross sales during the last month reveals that there was pent-up demand for authorized hashish in our communities,” he stated.
“With the growth that has been skilled within the oil fields over the previous few years, shoppers now have extra disposable revenue to spend on objects like hashish or they’re turning to hashish as drugs to assist with their aches and pains and different health-related points,” Kennicott stated.
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Six licenses have been authorized by the CCD for hashish retailers, hashish manufacturing microbusinesses, hashish producers and hashish producers throughout the Metropolis of Carlsbad as of June 3.
Twenty-two draft proposals awaited license approval from the CCD for numerous hashish retailers within the Metropolis of Carlsbad, per the company’s web site.
“Both manner, the hashish marketplace for Carlsbad and Eddy County is trying robust and can doubtless proceed that manner for fairly a while,” Kennicott stated.
Texas curiosity fueling hashish gross sales?
Hobbs, Clovis and Sunland Park have been forward of Carlsbad in total gross sales, information learn from CCD.
The three cities are near the Lone Star State the place leisure hashish use, and gross sales are unlawful.
“What we’re seeing with the breakdown of the numbers from numerous areas is that our neighbors are additionally very enthusiastic about our market, notably these coming from Texas,” Kennicott stated.
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Hobbs recorded $1.6 million in hashish gross sales. Sunland Park had $1.4 million and Clovis reported $1.1 million in total gross sales, per the CCD.
Kennicott speculated Carlsbad’s shut proximity to Texas doubtless helped generate gross sales throughout Could.
Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces and Rio Rancho have been New Mexico’s main cities in hashish gross sales in Could, based on the Hashish Management Division.
“This primary yr shall be fascinating in establishing the baseline for the way our market will mature sooner or later,” Kennicott stated.
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The hashish trade was projected to generate $300 million yearly in gross sales, create 11,000 jobs and herald $50 million in state income within the first yr alone, based on CCD.
“Gross sales will doubtless stay very robust, nevertheless it’ll be vital to regulate market circumstances corresponding to what number of new producers and producers are coming on-line, what number of retailers are opening, and the supply of product on the wholesale market,” Kennicott stated.
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A proposal to create a fundamental right to a clean environment on par with other rights found in New Mexico’s constitution will return to the Legislature in the coming days.
The sponsors will prefile the legislation this week, Sen. Harold Pope (D-Albuquerque), said during a news conference Tuesday with other sponsors and advocates. Lawmakers have already turned in bills dealing with tribal education, retired public sector workers’ health care and foster care in advance of the session starting Jan. 21.
If passed and signed into law, the legislation would create a ballot question asking voters whether to add a Green Amendment to the New Mexico Constitution.
Traditional environmental laws often fail to prevent harm because they focus on regulating how much damage pollution does, rather than preventing it altogether, argues Maya van Rossum, founder of the nonprofit Green Amendments for the Generations.
Three states have constitutional Green Amendments that protect people’s right to clean water and air, a safe climate and a healthy environment, van Rossum said during the news conference: Pennsylvania, Montana and New Jersey.
Similar amendments have been proposed in 19 other states, she said, with an ongoing ballot initiative in one state.
If the amendment passes, New Mexico would be the first state in the country to explicitly recognize in its state constitutional Bill of Rights the right of all people, including future generations, to a safe climate, she said.
It would also be the first to lift up critical environmental justice protections to that highest constitutional level, she said.
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration has passed strong regulations to protect the environment, said Sen. Antoinette Sedillo López (D-Albuquerque), but she is worried about how the federal government could try to roll back those gains.
The Green Amendment is a way to protect New Mexico from the excesses of the incoming Donald Trump administration, she said.
It will be the fifth time the Green Amendment has been debated at the Roundhouse. The proposal has been introduced every year since 2021.
Previous versions of the bill would have repealed an existing part of the state constitution that recognizes that the Legislature has a duty to protect commonly owned natural resources and ensure the public can use them. This year’s version keeps that in place, van Rossum said.
It took 10 years of persistent advocacy and some changes in who had power at the Roundhouse to end the death penalty, Sedillo López said.
“We have some changes in the Legislature, and we have a growing number of advocates who continue to provide sustained advocacy,” she said of the efforts around the Green Amendment. “And, we have persistent legislators. We will get this done.”
It also took five years of legislative debate to create New Mexico’s community solar program, Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero (D-Albuquerque) noted.
Roybal Caballero said so long as New Mexico lacks necessary guardrails like the Green Amendment, the state’s inhabitants remain at risk of declining children’s health, raging wildfires and flash floods.
“Our right to clean air, water, soil and environment should be protected above profits for the elite,” Roybal Caballero said. “Let New Mexicans decide if we prefer drinkable water for ourselves and future generations, or to continue to line the pocketbooks of the elite few.”
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It’s going to be a chilly day across New Mexico. See the latest conditions at KOB.com/Weather.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A winter weather advisory is in effect in parts of New Mexico where snow and slick roads are possible through Friday.
The advisory warns of 1-3 inches of snow and slick roads for places in southern New Mexico through Friday at 5 a.m. Snow accumulations could total as much as five inches in Ruidoso, two inches in Roswell and 1.7 inches in Silver City.
Elsewhere, Tuesday will see the canyon winds pick up and temperatures cool down as a backdoor cold front comes barging in.
Meteorologist Kira Miner shares all the details in her full forecast in the video above.
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