New Mexico cannabis law
Key points
Legal status
Fully legal
Possession limits
| Medical patients | 15 oz per 90-day period |
| Recreational users | 2 oz of usable cannabis, 16 g extract, 800 mg edibles |
State taxes
| Medical patients | 0% |
| Recreational users | 12% excise tax increasing to 18% by 2030 |
Cultivation
| Medical patients | Up to 12 plants with no more than 6 being mature. Up to 12 mature plants per household |
| Recreational users | Up to 12 plants with no more than 6 being mature. Up to 12 mature plants per household |
Cultivation is legal
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- Alzheimer’s disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
- Anorexia/cachexia
- Anxiety
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cancer
- Cervical dystonia
- Crohn’s disease
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Friedreich’s ataxia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C infection
- HIV/AIDS
- Hospice patients
- Huntington’s disease
- Inflammatory autoimmune-mediated arthritis
- Insomnia
- Intractable nausea/vomiting
- Lewy body disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Opioid dependency or other substance abuse disorders
- Painful peripheral neuropathy
- Parkinson’s disease
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Severe chronic pain
- Spasmodic torticollis
- Spinal cord damage
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Ulcerative colitis
Eight ounces of medical cannabis (over a 90-day period)
Yes, 16 plants (four mature, 12 immature)
Yes
Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act, N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-31C-1 (2007)
N.M. Stat. Ann. §26-2B-3(F) (2007)
Yes, primary caregiver is designated by patient’s practitioner as necessary to take responsibility for managing the well-being of a qualified patient with respect to the medical use of cannabis. Primary caregiver must be a resident of New Mexico. The caregiver must be 18 years of age or older.
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Source: Medical Cannabis Division, as of May 2024
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