A state district judge cleared the way for hundreds of patients to be re-authorized to participate in New Mexico’s medical marijuana program.
The ruling stemmed from a challenge of a mandate issued in September and a subsequent emergency rule adopted by the state health department just weeks later that placed additional requirements on some patients with medical marijuana cards from other states.
Ultra Health, the state’s largest cannabis company, asked the court to step in. It argued that the agency overstepped the intention of the state Legislature and created more hurdles for patients seeking to gain reciprocal admission into the New Mexico program.
Judge Matthew Wilson said the agency’s justification for adopting the emergency rule in early October was inadequate and therefore unenforceable.
“It’s important to patients who were already part of the program and got it taken away and patients who are in need of access. This was their only hope,” said a patient advocate.
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