For the first time in six years and less than a week before the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDH) transferred authority to the newly created Cannabis Control Division, officials quietly opened the window a crack for producers to apply for a cannabis “legacy” producer license. Except for one applicant, nobody else seemed to know about it. The New Mexico Health Department’s last-minute cannabis license is raising eyebrows. According to the Santa Fe New Mexican, the state health department, without any public notification or announcement, began accepting applications for marijuana cultivation licenses for one week in late June before all industry oversight was transferred to the new Cannabis Control Division on June 29. The Cannabis Regulation Act went...
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