New Mexico governor signs adult use into law.
New Mexico is officially the 18th state with legal adult use cannabis. On Monday, during a ceremony,
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed
HB 2, the
As
Cannabis Wire reported, lawmakers sent the bill to the governor’s desk at the end of March, after she called a special session to “get it done.”
“We are going to increase consumer safety by creating a bona fide industry. We’re going to start righting past wrongs of this country’s failed war on drugs. And we’re going to break new ground in an industry that may well transform New Mexico’s economic future for the better,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement Monday.