Medical marijuana - The Durango Herald

Colorado’s new law to restrict teen marijuana use faces legal challenge

The parents of a medical marijuana user in Colorado say a new law that aims to curb young people’s access to highly potent marijuana is unconstitutional. Nineteen-year-old Benjamin Wann uses...

DATE: Jul 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. Supreme Court justice say cannabis ban ‘may no longer be necessary or proper’

High Court declines to hear a lawsuit involving a Denver medical marijuana dispensary

DATE: Jun 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

What will happen if New Mexico legalizes recreational marijuana?

Colorado pot shop owner says plenty of customers come from Land of Enchantment

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Are marijuana shops being over-taxed by the city of Durango?

Officials to review licensing fees this fall

DATE: Aug 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico court allows medical marijuana tax deduction

SANTA FE – Medical marijuana producers in New Mexico can claim a tax deduction for prescription medication, a move that could affect prices for thousands of enrolled patients, according to a...

DATE: Feb 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Legal marijuana sales may spark Midwest interstate tension

CHICAGO – Retailers legally selling marijuana for the past month in Michigan say they have drawn customers from surrounding Midwestern states where the drug remains illegal and, as Illinois ...

DATE: Dec 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico school district adopts medical marijuana policy

FARMINGTON – A northern New Mexico school district’s board has approved a policy allowing the administration of medical marijuana to students enrolled in the state’s medical marijuana progra...

DATE: Dec 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pot legalization plan in New Mexico would subsidize patients, pay police

SANTA FE – A proposal unveiled Wednesday for legal marijuana sales throughout New Mexico would use taxes to subsidize medical pot purchases for low-income patients and set aside money for po...

DATE: Oct 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Denver cannabis recall reaches Durango

Local companies received potentially contaminated product

DATE: Oct 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Ruling opens New Mexico medical pot program to outsiders

SANTA FE – A judge has ruled that New Mexico’s medical marijuana program is open to people from outside the state who qualify based on a medical condition. The final ruling Thursd...

DATE: Aug 30, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico legalizing marijuana job numbers may be ‘decent’

ALBUQUERQUE – Legalizing recreational marijuana in New Mexico would create needed jobs in one of the poorest states in the nation, but the numbers would pale in comparison with jobs in other...

DATE: Aug 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico judge broadens medical marijuana program

SANTA FE – A New Mexico judge has ordered state officials to issue identification cards for the medical marijuana program to all qualifying patients, including people who live outside the st...

DATE: Aug 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News