An emergency rule change in New Mexico that doubles the variety of hashish vegetation the state’s licensed producers can develop at one time took impact final week, growing the restrict from 10,000 to twenty,000, the Albuquerque Journal stories. Nevertheless, the licensed producers say the change is simply too little, too late to fulfill the demand for the launch of adult-use gross sales in April.
Hashish Management Division Director Kristen Thomson famous that the state’s medical hashish provide “will grow to be more and more threatened with out an enough provide of vegetation.”
Ben Lewinger, govt director of the New Mexico Hashish Chamber of Commerce, argued that the rule change “will solely assist the very greatest and well-resourced producers” and “gained’t assist medical hashish sufferers and it gained’t assist new companies attempting to interrupt into the business.”
“Constructing the infrastructure to double plant rely may take months to years for many operators, and vegetation put within the floor at the moment gained’t be prepared in April.” — Lewinger, in a press release, through the Journal
Duke Rodriguez, CEO and president of Extremely Well being, the state’s largest producer, referred to as the rule change “nice information” however stated it wouldn’t change considerably the quantity of hashish out there when adult-use gross sales are permitted on April 1.
“We’re most likely not going to obtain any aid within the remaining 74 days to April 1,” Rodriguez stated within the report. He added that he would really like the state to abolish plant counts and depend on a market-based method which might “go away it as much as the impartial entrepreneur to find out how a lot monetary threat they wish to take.”
State officers issued their first adult-use business licenses and program guidelines final month.
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