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Linda Trujillo, superintendent of the state Regulation and Licensing Department (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
SANTA FE The head of New Mexico’s chief regulatory agency said she fears a lack of access to bank loans and other financing will keep local residents from entering the new cannabis industry and competing with out-of-state companies.
Linda Trujillo, superintendent of the state Regulation and Licensing Department, told legislators Monday that her agency is working “behind the scenes” to examine how the state can help ensure startup money is available to New Mexicans who want to launch a marijuana business.
But legislative action might be necessary next year, she said.
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The United States’ first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported north of Seattle in Snohomish County in January 2020. Washington state also saw the nation’s first deadly outbreak, at a nursing home east of Seattle.
Oregon had its first reported COVID-19 case a month later. Hector Calderon, a janitor in a Portland metro-area school district spent 71 days in the hospital, 60 of them on a ventilator, and was in a coma for 50 days.
“God gave me another opportunity to live, and the doctor’s did,” Calderon said at the governor’s reopening event in Portland. He added he is ready to finally go on a vacation again as restrictions are lifted.