I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The two gubernatorial candidates stand in opposition to one another when it comes to New Mexico’s medical marijuana program. While Democratic candidate Diane Denish supports the program, Republican candidate Susana Martinez told the Santa Fe Reporter she would try to end the program.
“I would work to repeal the state’s medical marijuana law,” a statement sent to SFR by Adam Deguire, Martinez’ campaign manager, reads. “It is against federal law to distribute marijuana and there are alternative medications that meet the medical needs of patients.”
On the other side is Denish, who “supported the Compassionate Use Act when it passed and is open to having a conversation with the advocates about how it gets implemented,” campaign spokesman Chris Cervini tells SFR.
Martinez’s stance is a major departure from the last Republican who occupied the governor’s mansion. Former Gov. Gary Johnson supported legalizing marijuana.
Recently, Johnson has been sighted calling for the legalization and taxation of marijuana in California.
The Republican Party of New Mexico platform, however, says the party “disapprove[s] of efforts to legalize or decriminalize drugs.”
