• Donate Now
  • The NM Political Report
    • logo
    • The NM Political Report
    • About
      • About
      • Our Team
      • Donate
      • Send us a Tip

    The NM Political Report - New Mexico's best political reporting. Period.

    The NM Political Report (https://nmpoliticalreport.com/drugpolicy_2347/)

    • News
    • COVID-19 coverage
    • Environmental Project
    • Elections
    • Donate
    • Republish our Stories

    DrugPolicy_2347

    Published April 17, 2015 at 1200 × 800 in DrugPolicy_2347
    • NM Political Report

    Recent Posts

    • The retired Escalante Power Plant may be converted into a hydrogen plant

      When Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. announced the closure of the Escalante Power Plant in 2020, McKinley and Cibola counties braced for the economic impacts of losing a major employer.

    • State land commissioner says the office is nearing her goal for renewable energy development

      When Stephanie Garcia Richard took the office of State Land Commissioner following the 2018 elections, she had the goal of tripling renewable energy development on state lands.

    • Conflicting views on medical cannabis as a prescription

      Amid a pending New Mexico Supreme Court case concerning medical cannabis taxes, one state cabinet official seems to have a different view on whether medical cannabis recommendations from medical professionals are the same as traditional prescriptions, at least when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine priority.  According to an email from January of this year, obtained by NM Political Report through a public records request, New Mexico Department of Health Secretary Tracie Collins believed that medical cannabis dispensary workers should be viewed similarly to pharmacists and that medical providers “prescribe medical cannabis” when it came to priority for COVID-19 vaccinations.  This view differs greatly from an argument the state’s Taxation and Revenue Department has put forward in an ongoing legal case regarding gross receipts taxes and whether they should be allowed to be deducted from medical cannabis sales.  Collins’ apparent view that medical cannabis recommendations are essentially the same as prescriptions came up in a series of emails between Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s staff and Department of Health officials regarding where medical cannabis dispensary workers fall in terms of COVID-19 vaccination priority.

    About Patrick Davis

    Patrick Davis is the executive director of ProgressNow NM, a public advocacy organization advocating for progressive causes in New Mexico.

    • More by Patrick

    © Copyright 2015-2021, NM Political Report

    This site built with Project Largo from INN and proudly powered by WordPress.

    Back to top ↑