Two weeks into adult-use hashish gross sales in New Mexico, some medical hashish sufferers and shops have began asking how the state will strike the steadiness between serving sufferers and making adult-use hashish worthwhile, KOB 4 experiences. The state Hashish Management Division (CCD) says New Mexico has bought over $8 million in adult-use hashish in two weeks, however KOB notes the information exhibits medical hashish demand stays excessive.
Stefanie Okay, a longtime medical hashish affected person, says shops have been telling her to maintain her medical hashish card though she feels there is no such thing as a distinction between the 2 techniques in the mean time.
“They’re telling us we must always preserve our playing cards regardless that it’s leisure. For what motive? What are we getting? What perks are we getting? We don’t get to get in line in entrance of anyone, we don’t get to pay much less costs, we don’t get higher weed. No, we get nothing,” she mentioned.
She mentioned the strains she makes use of for her anxiousness have bought out of her dispensary, inflicting her to have to search out them at a medical-only store, which she says is turning into tougher to search out. Stefanie mentioned now that adult-use has arrived, the outlets are solely involved about “cash indicators, the {dollars}.”
Some New Mexico shops have tried to look out for sufferers as adult-use hashish emerges. Ellie Besancon, government director of Inexperienced Items, instructed KOB her retailer needed to “create show instances whereby we now have solely leisure choices and solely medical choices.” However, she feels a few of their loyal sufferers nonetheless have a “frustration stage,” having to attend in lengthy traces regardless that they “knew what they needed.”
Besancon instructed KOB they need to make it via the 4/20 vacation and “then type of collect ourselves up, choose ourselves up out of the mud, and sort of take one other stock of what we now have.”
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