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 Department of Veterans Affairs has released new guidelines that will make it easier for veterans to receive benefits for post traumatic stress disorder. Currently, unless a veteran has been in combat, claims adjudicators must conduct an extensive records analysis…
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…
A recent story aired on National Public Radio about New Mexico’s innovative medical marijuana program again looked at the state’s program being one of the strictest in the country.
NPR held New Mexico up as the anti-California, telling its listeners…
New Jersey will become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana if Gov. Chris Christie signs a bill on his desk. The state modeled its legislation on New Mexico’s highly regulated medical marijuana program, although it may ultimately become even more…
Arizona could allow the use of marijuana if voters approve of a measure that qualified Tuesday for the November ballot. In order to get the issue on the ballot, supporters gathered more than 250,000 signatures, the Arizona Republic reports.
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, a potential 2012 Presidential candidate, is again calling for the legalization of marijuana, saying it would help reduce crime and help the country fiscally.
An Associated Press/CNBC poll released today found that a majority of…
Almost 75 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, according to a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The number in support of general marijuana legalization is much smaller although…
New Mexico is the only state in the nation that explicitly qualifies post traumatic stress disorder for medical marijuana, according to the Associated Press, although California pretty much allows marijuana for “any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.”…
As more and more states, like New Mexico, take the beginning steps in creating a medical marijuana program, the state that first allowed the drug for medicinal use 14 years ago is considering legalizing it entirely. Once Los Angeles County…
A Colorado legislator wants to amend a medical marijuana licensing bill to allow any military veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder to use the drug after obtaining a recommendation from a psychiatrist. In offering the amendment to Colorado House…
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Fox News picked up on our story about New Mexico veterans with PTSD and the Veterans Administration policy that prevents doctors from helping PTSD patients get medical marijuana. Paul Culkin,…
The largest group of patients enrolled in New Mexico’s medical marijuana program are those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to the most recent New Mexico Department of Health data. But Albuquerque’s Veteran’s Administration hospital–which many veterans rely on as their only source of health care–doesn’t allow its physicians to recommend the use of marijuana to patients.
A 25 percent excise tax on medical marijuana could potentially raise about $1.2 million dollars for the state, according to the Legislative Finance Committee’s fiscal impact report of Sen. John Sapien’s bill, SB 56. But in a response…
This week we’re talking about something many of us probably couldn’t have envisioned only a few years ago: With New Mexico’s adoption of medical marijuana comes a bill that would tax the sale of medical marijuana. Should New Mexico tax legal sale of the drug?
A bill introduced by Sen. Jon Sapien, D-Corrales, would apply a 25 percent excise tax and gross receipts taxes on the drug. But the founders of a new medical marijuana patients’ group say that to force patients to pay tax on their medicine would “hurt them a lot.”
Soft drinks, medical marijuana, even that book you want to buy online could get taxed under various proposals filed this week in the early days of the 2010 legislative session. Meanwhile, buying a pack of cigarettes may get a lot more costly, too. Lawmakers have dropped roughly 280 bills in the opening days of the session–and quite a few of those proposals are tax bills.
New Jersey is poised to become the 14th state to allow the use of medical marijuana by people suffering from debilitating diseases under a bill that received legislative approval on Monday, the Record of Bergen County reports.
New Mexico is one of the growing number of states that allows marijuana for medicinal use. Now New Jersey appears poised to become the next state to allow residents to use marijuana, when recommended by a doctor, for relief…
If Taos resident Tumi Madappa appeals an order by the Second Judicial District in Albuquerque, New Mexico may soon have case law addressing whether or not medical marijuana patients may purchase their marijuana on the black market if there aren’t…
Although it has been praised for its innovative structure, New Mexico’s medical marijuana program, which debuted this year, has also been criticized for not providing enough of the drug to meet demand and for allowing high costs that could be prohibitive for some patients. In an interview, New Mexico Secretary Alfredo Vigil says New Mexico’s medical marijuana program faces the same barriers of provision and access as other health care services.
