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Muha Meds Marries Opportunity and Efficiency

October 9, 2024
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Spotlight
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Muha Meds is a Los Angeles-based cannabis MSO that was started in 2015 as a “traditional” market delivery service by entrepreneur brothers Ali and Muhammad Garawi, who went legal a few years later with a collection of vape cartridges. Building…

The New Mexico cannabis cowboys: Modern day desperados

It was something once relegated to the shadows in back alleys and dimly lit street corners. But all that changed two years ago after lawmakers legalized recreational marijuana. In New Mexico today there are 13 times more cannabis stores than…

‘Seize all cannabis’: Inside the surprising federal crackdown on New Mexico weed farmers

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been seizing cannabis in the southern part of the state, sparking tensions with Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Drug cartels and human traffickers aren’t the only people dodging border patrol officers these days in…

Why the number of dispensaries is concerning the NM cannabis industry

October 12, 2023
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There are more than 1,000 licensed dispensaries in New Mexico. Professionals in the cannabis industry speak on why it may worry them. In the most recent report from the state, New Mexico's cannabis industry brought in more than $30 million…

New Mexico launches educational campaign on responsible cannabis use

NM campaign scheduled to run in June with media budget of $400K After more than a year of recreational marijuana sales, New Mexico is rolling out its first campaign to educate people about responsible use. The first batch of billboards…

New Mexico’s Mountaintop Extracts Aims for Pure Heights

May 30, 2023
Tom Hymes
Company Stories, News & Insights, Processing, Spotlight
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With a name like Mountaintop Extracts, one might assume that delivering the highest high was the goal of the founders of this Albuquerque, New Mexico-based producer, but it was not. Their objective was to produce the purest, cleanest cannabis oil…

New Mexico launches cannabis sales, within Texans’ reach

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico is bringing sales of recreational marijuana to the doorstep of Texas, the largest prohibition state, as the movement toward broad legalization sweeps up even more of the American West. As of midnight Friday…

CannaBiz: What it takes to get into the cannabis industry

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The past year has been one of big, faithful leaps for Dan and Anna Novak. The Albuquerque couple recently got married, and on April 1, they’ll open The Bad Company and step into New Mexico’s recreational cannabis…

What’s ahead for recreational pot in New Mexico

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Marijuana aficionados and entrepreneurs across New Mexico are bracing for the April 1 start of state-regulated retail marijuana. New Mexico joins 17 other states that have legalized recreation marijuana without significant legal challenges. The start…

New Mexico Plant count increases ahead of New Mexico marijuana sales

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico regulators have doubled the number of marijuana plants that licensed growers can cultivate as the state prepares for recreational sales to start this spring, officials announced Tuesday. Increasing the plant count makes sense…

Who’s applying to be New Mexico’s first cannabis producers?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In just two months since the Cannabis Control Division (CCD) began accepting applications for producer licenses, there have already been more than 1,500 applications started by would-be entrepreneurs, according to the CCD. Of those, more than 1,000 of…

Recreational cannabis is almost here: where should the stores put their money?

August 9, 2021
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Banking, Finance & Real Estate, New Mexico
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As of July, cannabis is legal to grow, possess and use recreationally in New Mexico. However, the drug is still illegal at the federal level, which means that getting access to bank accounts, loans and other financial…

Muha Meds Marries Opportunity and Efficiency

The New Mexico cannabis cowboys: Modern day desperados

‘Seize all cannabis’: Inside the surprising federal crackdown on New Mexico weed farmers

Why the number of dispensaries is concerning the NM cannabis industry

New Mexico launches educational campaign on responsible cannabis use

New Mexico’s Mountaintop Extracts Aims for Pure Heights

New Mexico launches cannabis sales, within Texans’ reach

CannaBiz: What it takes to get into the cannabis industry

What’s ahead for recreational pot in New Mexico

New Mexico Plant count increases ahead of New Mexico marijuana sales

Who’s applying to be New Mexico’s first cannabis producers?

Recreational cannabis is almost here: where should the stores put their money?

Recreational marijuana legal to possess, grow in New Mexico

As NM braces for legal marijuana, experts warn about dangers of extraction labs

Marijuana legalization has won