Legalized recreational marijuana likely is coming to Tucumcari and Quay County. The mayor of Trinidad, Colorado, passed along some advice to the region after the experiencing the effects of legal weed in his community.
“Be very careful how many (marijuana dispensaries) you allow in your community,” Trinidad Mayor Phil Rico said in a telephone interview last week. “Be careful how close you put them to educational facilities. Be very careful if you have a historic district and how you control that. Be careful with your application process and make sure it’s completely thorough.”
The New Mexico Legislature during a special session last month passed a recreational marijuana bill that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signaled she would sign. Under the measure, licensed cannabis sales would begin no later than April 2022, and the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department will begin issuing such licenses by January.
That means Tucumcari and Quay County might see legal weed by the first half of 2022. With neighboring Texas considered unlikely to legalize marijuana soon, that could mean a substantial amount of pot tourism from the Lone Star State and other states where it isn’t legal.
Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana in late 2012 and was one of the first states to do so.
By Rico’s estimation, 26 marijuana-related businesses have set up shop in Trinidad, a town of about 8,000 people 15 miles from New Mexico’s north border.
Trinidad has one dispensary per…
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Legalized recreational marijuana likely is coming to Tucumcari and Quay County. The mayor of Trinidad, Colorado, passed along some advice to the region after the experiencing the effects of legal weed in his community.
“Be very careful how many (marijuana dispensaries) you allow in your community,” Trinidad Mayor Phil Rico said in a telephone interview last week. “Be careful how close you put them to educational facilities. Be very careful if you have a historic district and how you control that. Be careful with your application process and make sure it’s completely thorough.”
The New Mexico Legislature during a special session last month passed a recreational marijuana bill that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signaled she would sign. Under the measure, licensed cannabis sales would begin no later than April 2022, and the state’s Regulation and Licensing Department will begin issuing such licenses by January.
That means Tucumcari and Quay County might see legal weed by the first half of 2022. With neighboring Texas considered unlikely to legalize marijuana soon, that could mean a substantial amount of pot tourism from the Lone Star State and other states where it isn’t legal.
Colorado voters legalized recreational marijuana in late 2012 and was one of the first states to do so.
By Rico’s estimation, 26 marijuana-related businesses have set up shop in Trinidad, a town of about 8,000 people 15 miles from New Mexico’s north border.
Trinidad has one dispensary per…
